Posted By:
robert aHi Jeff,
The E95 and E96 sets are fairly easy to complete. E95 is a lot easier than E96, but much, much more expensive. E96 has a mack and lajoie as the main money swallowers and tinker, baker, and jennings as mid range hofers.
I've completed each set (e95 twice) and E98 is tougher than both.
A friend of mine needed an E96 McQuillan to finish the set for quite a while, but really no card is tougher than the others like we find with E98, E97 and others.
This seems to be a great time to go after these two sets. They've fallen a bit in value which I really like. I even saw a cheap wagner in one of the auctions that ended last week. Maybe I can upgrade mine one day!
Both sets are really attractive though. It seems that Phila. Caramels really could afford a nice product. You don't see a lot of errors with these, but you do see a TON of staining with E96. Not so much staining on E95s. The E96s must've been packaged closer to the caramels or they were offered with a messier candy product than e95.
Good luck.
rob