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Al C.risafulliI am working on the E121 set with the Henry Johnson Confectioners back. I figure I'll be doing this for the rest of my life.
This set is currently classified as a W575-1 set, but many believe that they're just blank-backed E121s. There is a checklist, but I'm unaware of anyone who has ever built a complete set. As such, I do not believe that anyone knows how many cards were actually produced, or if a complete set is even possible. I know of a handful of type card collectors who have one or two of these in their collection, but do not know if anyone possesses any of these in quantity.
I've reached out to multiple collectors and only been lucky enough to find a "hoard" of these (seven, to be exact) on one occasion. I've spoken with a few long-time collectors who say they've seen no more than a dozen or two in their lifetimes.
At this point they're not at all expensive like Tango Eggs are, but they are still very tough to find. Despite fairly constant digging, I believe I've tracked down 6 or 7 in the last year.
I currently have 20 different cards from the set, including three Hall of Famers: Ty Cobb, Red Faber, and Johnny Evers. Aside from the checklist, which I believe was compiled under the assumption that the H-J checklist should mirror the W575-1 checklist, I am unaware of anyone who knows exactly which cards were produced, in what quantity, or where they can be located. Given that, I don't know that it's possible to complete the set - my goal is to just keep buying or trading for them whenever I'm lucky enough to find one. I suspect I'm the only collector out there who cares enough about them to try and find more than one or two, so it's not like there are tons of resources for me to track them down.
-Al