What's the most Odd Ball set you're working on?

[darkhorse9]

Can be either Pre-war or Post war. What's are the sets your working on that have little general appeal outside of your world? Usually this means it's hard to find the cards you need since no one else is collecting it.

I'm working a couple:

Pre-War
1945 Caramelo Deportivo (just need the three big Negro League stars and the short print). I can find them, but the prices are crazy high

Post War
1977 Hostess Twinkies - the single card black bar set. I'm working a master set for all the product versions numbering 276 cards. This is crazy tough as it's full of short prints and no one else is collecting it so they never show up for sale. I still need 15 of them.

[Cliff Bowman]

1985 Subway Discs. ETA, they are mysterious. They are blank backed with no company name on them, they were discovered years later in a warehouse, the complete set checklist and the total of color variations are both unknown and are updated as new discoveries are made. I would have also included a master set of 1979 Kellogg’s with all 158 variations but I completed it a few years ago.

[sflayank]

Leader cleaners
Gold mine bucks
Kelly's hamburgers

[ALR-bishop]

Topps 1991 Instant Win game cards....still need 3 for a "set", but no sure they exists

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrJ...B1QCkU_HqPsY4-

For prewar, the 1923 Fleer set

[brianp-beme]

Not working on any weird ones currently, but the oddest PreWar2 set that I have worked on is the W9316 strip card issue. These cards normally make people sick to their stomachs.

Brian

[Exhibitman]

1968 Atlantic Oil. I have the base set of 40, the Swoboda variation, and the instant winner card, but there are 10 SSPs that were prize-winning tickets for cash money. I have two. I assume I will never finish since the Agee (grand prize winner) and Banks ($100 prize winner) are likely never to be found. I did luck into the Davis ($100 prize winner), though, so there may be a Banks out there.

1960 Los Angeles Examiner Lakers.

[riggs336]

I just completed the set of R344 Rabbit Maranville "How To..." folders. It took years.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

1968 Atlantic Oil. I have the base set of 40, the Swoboda variation, and the instant winner card, but there are 10 SSPs that were prize-winning tickets for cash money. I have two. I assume I will never finish since the Agee (grand prize winner) and Banks ($100 prize winner) are likely never to be found. I did luck into the Davis ($100 prize winner), though, so there may be a Banks out there.

1960 Los Angeles Examiner Lakers.

Cool set. I'm always looking for those Atlantic and American oil cards on COMC to see if any are the rare winners.

[conor912]

1908 Rose Comic PC798-14

I've built a lot of sets over the years, but this has been one of the trickier ones. Some are common, but I've been looking for years for the last one I need..."The score is tied..."

[Michael Peich]

It's going to be a SLOOOOW slog, but I have started 1923-24 Billiken. Here are the first few including a scarcer La Moda back.

Cheers,
Mike

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Cool set. I'm always looking for those Atlantic and American oil cards on COMC to see if any are the rare winners.

Here is the Davis ($100 winner):



Wilson ($1 winner):



and the tougher Swoboda variation (supposed to be a $10 winner; see the rules on the back of the Davis):

[vintagewhitesox]

A70 Defenders and Offenders set of policemen from New York and New Jersey, and offenders, such as murderers, robbers, thieves, etc.
Brian Cornell got me hooked on these about a decade ago at a National. Been trying to put the set together ever since.

I have one card.

[the-illini]

M101-6 Felix Mendelsohn. Unless the other board member who is doing this set gets tired of his, I am pretty much stuck at 52 different.

[phikappapsi]

trying to complete this one for about a decade - missing exactly 1 player (Arky) and have been for a while.

[doug.goodman]

I'm working on the never ending :
m113 (need 31, of 94 known)
m114 (need 60, of 1102 known)


Also, less "odd ball" but not on every want list :
m101-1 (need 19)
m118 (need 3)
m128 (need 16)

[ripfan008]

Originally Posted by sflayank

Leader cleaners
Gold mine bucks
Kelly's hamburgers

Good morning Larry,

How is the Goldmine Bucks set going? Is Nellie Fox still the only known player?

[sflayank]

Hey...that gets me 5.5% of the way there

[Farm_kid]

2009 Topps 206 Mini Cycle Backs with print run to 99.

I have 142 of the 300 card set.

[Farm_kid]

I've always loved the Red White and Blue Disc Cards from the 80s! Different Advertising brands as well makes them interesting in the same way T206s are.

[Spike]

Working on the 1921 Universal Toy & Novelty Co. strip sets, which include a portion of W516-1 baseball, boxing, and several non-sport subjects. Here's an example of how the text overlaps in two different ways for the baseball strips.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Spike

Working on the 1921 Universal Toy & Novelty Co. strip sets, which include a portion of W516-1 baseball, boxing, and several non-sport subjects. Here's an example of how the text overlaps in two different ways for the baseball strips.

Are you going to do a master set of variations or have you chosen a less painful way of killing yourself?

[Gpaal]

I am thinking mine would be the 1967 Dexter Press.

[Jason]

1985 Procards Richmond Braves autographed team set lol!

[tiger8mush]

37 unique of the 126 cards in the set (parallels E121-120, which has 126 poses).

[Bram99]

I am not really going for the set per se, but they are part of some player master sets that I am working on.

Gumball sized cards that were in strips of 13 with many HOF players of both contemporary 1950 times as well as back to early years (Cobb, Ruth, etc.)

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Are you going to do a master set of variations or have you chosen a less painful way of killing yourself?

The pain tells that I'm still alive! *Hnnnnnggggggggh*

(In serious, I thought the 1921 Universal set would at least be "normal" strip cards without reversed images seen in so many other strip sets to worry about -- and then a friend sent me their Boy Scouts card with reverse-printed Universal © text on the top. So at least one reversed strip made it out of the factory! TBD if any others exist.)

[Clutch-Hitter]

Originally Posted by Spike

The pain tells that I'm still alive! *Hnnnnnggggggggh*

(In serious, I thought the 1921 Universal set would at least be "normal" strip cards without reversed images seen in so many other strip sets to worry about -- and then a friend sent me their Boy Scouts card with reverse-printed Universal © text on the top. So at least one reversed strip made it out of the factory! TBD if any others exist.)

It has been a while since I hunted these but off the top of my head...

They are all w516-1; similar to w515-1 and w515-2. Many of the cards will not have lettering at the top. W516-1 has several paper variations, however the universal cards will be more brown than white. The toughest w516 cards are the w516-1-2; paper is very white like e121s. Grading companies label w516 variations incorrectly more often than not.

I have a lot of these and refer to them this way

W516-1: white or tan paper varon cards 1-10, mostly tan 11-30, easiest
W516-2: universal w516-1s, also includes the school version
W516-3: currently recognized as w516-1-2, toughest in my experience
W516-4: currently w516-2-1
W516-5: w516-2-2, 2nd easiest, except the cicotte no number var
W516-6: w516-2-3, 2nd toughest
Edited to add
W516-7: from the poster, unnumbered; i have only George Burns

Big heads are not part of the w516 set, nor are the boxing big heads part of the w529 set imo. Maybe related to w9316, though I'd have to check my notes to remember why.

[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by phikappapsi

trying to complete this one for about a decade - missing exactly 1 player (Arky) and have been for a while.

That's AWESOME! Did you get them signed in person, thru the mail, purchased already signed? Quite an accomplishment thus far!!!!

[Leon]

Pinkerton set. Mostly blank backed. No idea who or how many are in it.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Spike

The pain tells that I'm still alive! *Hnnnnnggggggggh*

(In serious, I thought the 1921 Universal set would at least be "normal" strip cards without reversed images seen in so many other strip sets to worry about -- and then a friend sent me their Boy Scouts card with reverse-printed Universal © text on the top. So at least one reversed strip made it out of the factory! TBD if any others exist.)

Different series. There are several boxing format variations and countless ink and stock variations.

[aljurgela]

Don't really ever expect to finish it... but I will be to closest to doing it...

Right now, I am slightly over 70% done. Here are a few examples:

[paul]

What position did Julian Castillo play? Center?

[aljurgela]

I don't think that he would have caught many balls out there... so you guessed right.... the only place that he could probably play is the 1B (which it does say on the card by the way)... In the 4 games he played against the World Champ A's, he batted .400 (6/15) and had 3 runs scored. Not bad for the "big man"!

[seattlerainiers]

Those Punch cards. Holy moly. Epic!

[JollyElm]

I thought he was referring to a football center.

[paul]

Yes, I was referring to the football position of center. Absolutely wonderful Punch cards. I can't believe that anyone has amassed a near set of them.

[aljurgela]

Yeah... it has been a 15 year grind and I am "only 70 percent done".... only one card in the set has more than two graded copies available.... the juan viola which has 3 total copies.... so it is a rare event that I find a "new one" to add to the set....

[familytoad]

The most obscure set that I am working on is the E210-2 York Caramels (type 2) I love these cards. (I do have the full Type-1 version)

I haven't been searching very much for them lately, but I do have 54/60. Not bad

The ODDEST thing I am working on is my existing 17 full sets of 1971 Topps Football. I have 21 more "mostly complete" sets in binders too. A few more low grade Bradshaw RC's to go. So that's 38 sets and I have a couple thousand more to put in the sheets some day.

[darkhorse9]

Some fascinating stuff here.