Let's Talk E90-1

[chaddurbin]

speaker isn't any scarcer than any of the other toughies, it's just collectors tend to hold onto the card longer once it's in their possession...speaker's not in many other contemporary caramel issues, it's his identified rookie "card", letting it go might mean it will be hard to get it back. so one would have a list of big cards to sell from the set before thinking about selling the speaker (it makes a cool rookie caramel type card). there was a point 6-7 years back where 4-5 of varying grades came onto the market in 3-4 mos (i was guilty of having 2) but the last few sales it's been the same sgc 10. don't worry after this thread you'll see 1-2 pop up the next 6 months.

[steve B]

They're nice cards. I pick them up once in a while, and should probably get more. Most of mine are a bit rough. Except for this one.
The grade is a generous one since there's a really light crease in the center of the card.

Another odd note is that the 2010 big book lists it as one of the tough ones, which is a typo.

Steve B

[ScottFandango]

ahh the mysteries of the E90-1

some of the well known "rarities" are not as rare as others lesser known cards..

not to mention that certain cards come with two types of backs, a regular back and a SHADED BORDERS back...

some debate over this but if only certain (known by me) cards are found with the shaded back, then its not random printing errors (otherwise the shaded backs would be found on all the 120 cards which its not)

the shaded reverse cards are all LOW POP cards that are uncommon to find on ebay for sale...no common cards (most that are for sale on ebay) have shaded backs!

plus if you look at the front of the dozen or so shaded reverse cards, they all look similar on the front (same artist perhaps) signifying these were a separate print run (the rarest print run apparently)

i know Bob Lemke didnt think it was valid enough to document this in his book, but i dont think all the debate is done in regards to the overlooked obverse sides..

cheers

[vintagetoppsguy]

I've been going back and forth over the last year or so trying to decide if I want to start this set or not. I have picked up a few HOFers along the way.





Not a HOFer, but I picked this up on eBay earlier this week:

[Ladder7]

Would be a fun challenge to assemble, someday perhaps. The Young (Bos) is the pick of the litter. That 50 is sweet.

[pkaufman]

Speaker

[ls7plus]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

I've been going back and forth over the last year or so trying to decide if I want to start this set or not. I have picked up a few HOFers along the way.





Not a HOFer, but I picked this up on eBay earlier this week:

David obviously has an extremely good sense of eye appeal, aside and apart from technical grade!

Happy collecting,

Larry

[Mikehealer]

Nice Speaker Mr. Kaufman.

[ullmandds]

I like this set a lot...as Leon said...definitely the caramel equivalent of T206...it's got almost all of the stars...beautiful images...and some toughies. I've found the red background keeler portrait to be very tough.

[tbob]

Where were all you guys when I sold my E90-1 set in REA (all SGC graded) and got burned?

I have bought a couple of the ones I really liked in this set lately and the card shown below tonight. It's authentic but nice.
With regard to the Speaker, when I put my set together the two toughest cards were Speaker and Shean. Far and away. If you have the money you can buy any card in the set except for Speaker and Shean (and McLean) which are by far the toughest and rarely appear....