Scarcer/Rarer than.....

[Pat R]

Is it just me or does it bug other people when someone states that a card
is scarcer/rarer than a T206 Wagner, Cobb/Cobb ect... and they are referring
to a T206 with a non Sweet Caporal or Piedmont back and using the PSA and
SGC pop reports as a reference. I've seen it so many times I decided to
go through the pop reports and get some statistics.

I used the Cobb/Cobb for a comparison. There are 21 of them in the
combined PSA/SGC pop reports. Of the 524 subjects 483 of them have
at least one front/back combo (most have several) with a 20 or less
combined pop making them scarcer/rarer than a Cobb/Cobb in the pop reports.

It averaged out to 4.625 cards per combo for a total of 10,332 cards in
the pop reports that are scarcer than a Cobb/Cobb. And I didn't include
blank backs, Brown Lenox/Old mill, errors (ie nodgrass/Murr'ay), or
factory #'s (PIedmont 42, Sweet Caporal 25 ect..) if you include these
it could be 15,000 or more.

The Cobb (Red Portrait) has 10 combo's alone that are scarcer.