Question on the E98 Background Color Variations

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Originally Posted by pcoz

Rob, Scott M's set furthers your point about different ways they came to the market, as they are stunning cards and couldn't have been in a candy wrapper. I think I remember him saying he got all of them together in an estate sale. Brian, love the blues!

Hi Pete,

That is a really nice Old Put example! Thanks to you, and others, for your compliments on my E98 set.

I have nowhere near the knowledge on the E98 set that you and other collectors such as Tim and Rob have. The only thing that I can add to the discussion is that my E98s were obtained in the mid 1970s from the sister of the original collector who passed away. They were going to be thrown out before my father and I rescued them from the trash!

The collection "only" had the one complete set of all Green E98s (no doubles) and a single low-mid grade Orange E98 that I had the pleasure of trading or selling to Mike P. several years back.

If you look real closely there is a little bit of staining on one or two of my Green E98s but most of them do not have any staining at all.

I can't say exactly how the original collector obtained the cards, whether it was individually or as a group. I can tell you that they were kept stored in a Piedmont slide shell tobacco box along with other tobacco and candy cards that we found stored inside of other tobacco boxes which were kept inside cigar boxes from the period.