when was this e90-1 Duffy card marked up? "RARE"

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Posted By: Scott Fandango

a recent pick up, i think the card shows very well...an ultra "toughie" from the E90-1 American Caramel set...

Interesting thing is the Mark on the back....someone wrote "RARE" in pencil....

Any ideas when this would have been done?

would a 1970's collector mark his cards based on scarcity with a pencil?

Or was this done by the original collector of this card who may have known something about this set, way before his time?

Any thoughs or scans of similar cards are appreciated!

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

Based on that E, it looks like an old timer wrote it.

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Posted By: Scott Fandango

how did an "old timer" or original owner, know it was rare?

that is the $27,000 question....

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

after all the Wonka caramel bars , there were only 17 Duffy's placed in them and it was the "GOLDEN TICKET" send in offer that allowed collectors to get a Duffy. That will be 27k please !

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Posted By: Jeremy Wagoner

Collectors like Burdick sometimes wrote on the back of their cards. This could be a possibility. Sometime in the 40s-fifties?

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Posted By: fkw

At least it wasnt trimmed to fit an early Tobacco card page like many cards were in the 1970s.

Not uncommon for vintage cards to have pencil notes on the back, but its usually the ACC # that is written.

I would guess its 1960-70s. The tougher E90-1 cards were known back then.

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

I do think it is possible for someone to have hoarded these like I did my 3-d's in 70-74. Whatever checklist there was back then and maybe after many many dupes he landed one. Will we really know?

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Posted By: Troy Kirk

I would bet it was written in the 1980s after Lew Lipset identified the rare cards in that set in his writings.

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Posted By: Scott Fandango

i dont think it was written on during this period, because i collected in the 70's and the only card we wrote on was the checklist....we knew not to mark up the cards....

also, if someone was reading a detailed book/price guide about cards, they knew some may be valuable, so why would they mark them up and deface them?

Jefferson glued most of his cards into the binders at the MET, so he may have been inclined to also write on the back....

does anyone have a card with the provenance to link it to Jefferson himself?