Let's Talk E90-1

[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....

[T206Collector]

The only signed E90-1 card I've ever heard of is this Cobb from the Morey collection (no it's not mine -- I wish). Anybody ever seen another?

[tedzan]

Boston team collectors of this set certainly have a tough time finding their guys. A number of the scarce cards
that were printed in the last (1910) series represent the two Boston teams:

Boston AL......

Hall (horiz.)
Karger
Speaker
Stahl

Boston NL......

B. Brown (horiz.)
Graham
Richie
Shean
Bill Sweeney


A wild theory of mine suggests that Ramly (Worcester, MA) had the rights to these players in 1909; therefore,
the American Caramel Co. could not portray these Boston players in their early series.


TED Z

[tbob]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Boston team collectors of this set certainly have a tough time finding their guys. A number of the scarce cards
that were printed in the last (1910) series represent the two Boston teams:

Boston AL......

Hall (horiz.)
Karger
Speaker
Stahl

Boston NL......

B. Brown (horiz.)
Graham
Richie
Shean
Bill Sweeney


A wild theory of mine suggests that Ramly (Worcester, MA) had the rights to these players in 1909; therefore,
the American Caramel Co. could not portray these Boston players in their early series.


TED Z

Ted you may be on to something there.
The two horizontal cards seem to be tough because collectors really like horizontal cards but all the others are just plain tough, especially Dave Shean and Tris Speaker. Why the McLean seems to be on everyone's want list is another story. That was my 3rd toughest card behind the above two. Others say it is THE toughest. I know a couple of E90-1 collectors who have settled for putting the E92 Dockman McLean (same pose etc.) in their sets until they can find the E90-1 one.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Boston team collectors of this set certainly have a tough time finding their guys. A number of the scarce cards
that were printed in the last (1910) series represent the two Boston teams:

Boston AL......

Hall (horiz.)
Karger
Speaker
Stahl

Boston NL......

B. Brown (horiz.)
Graham
Richie
Shean
Bill Sweeney


A wild theory of mine suggests that Ramly (Worcester, MA) had the rights to these players in 1909; therefore,
the American Caramel Co. could not portray these Boston players in their early series.


TED Z

Hi Ted,

While I know there is a big difference between having rights and exercising rights, I have to note that there is no Speaker and no Hall in T204. Nor was there a B. Brown card or a Shean card in T204. Not so sure about the theory...

Cheers,
Blair