If one and only one Honus Wagner… $10-15k budget

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

I thought this pose was significantly easier than the e90-1 throwing?

In my experience, and I have been collecting Wagner for a while, the batting pose is generally more common than the trowing pose in all back variations, but still many batting poses are still tough to find. E90-1 is an example of this, on a relative basis. For such a large and widely distributed set, I find that both Wagner poses are oddly difficult in e90-1, with throwing being the more difficult if the two. Throwing is downright scarce (probably on par with Speaker). But even the batting pose is much tougher to find than other big names of the set, such as Cobb, Mathewson, Young (Boston), and Jackson

[theshowandme]

I am incredibly bias to this one

[Leon]

I wonder if Wags had anything to do with his card being more scarce in E90-1?

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

In my experience, and I have been collecting Wagner for a while, the batting pose is generally more common than the trowing pose in all back variations, but still many batting poses are still tough to find. E90-1 is an example of this, on a relative basis. For such a large and widely distributed set, I find that both Wagner poses are oddly difficult in e90-1, with throwing being the more difficult if the two. Throwing is downright scarce (probably on par with Speaker). But even the batting pose is much tougher to find than other big names of the set, such as Cobb, Mathewson, Young (Boston), and Jackson

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by Leon

I wonder if Wags had anything to do with his card being more scarce in E90-1?

Maybe, but I doubt it. I think his beef (if there was one) was with ATC and tobacco generally, but who knows.

There are some cards, like the Speaker, which are much rarer than others. Maybe the Speaker was printed later in the overall production. Maybe the Wagner throwing was too.

OR, maybe it was because Wagner was part of the E90-2 set commemorating the World Series champ and maybe they pulled his E90-1 cards because they were a different pose. I wonder if other Pirates who are in the E90-2 set are also rarer in the E90-1 set.

I am sure we have some E90-1 experts. This topic is probably worthy of a different/separate thread. Maybe I will create one, because its a very good question

[ullmandds]

Since I no longer have a portrait which would be my preference, I prefer the E 95!