What's the toughest back in the hobby?

[darwinbulldog]

A back that can be found on every card in a set can't of course have a single digit population unless there are a single digit number of cards in the set, so how about 1869 Peck & Snyder with the advertising text back? I believe the total population is in the low single digits.

[Casey2296]

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1922 W573 Cafe Du Monde is a tough one too.
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[EddieP]

W515 Fleer Back.

[Vintagecatcher]

Here is my choice: T206 Ty Cobb back!

Patrick

[kmac32]

T205 Hindu backs or T207 Napoleon backs

[HasselhoffsCheeseburger]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

A back that can be found on every card in a set can't of course have a single digit population unless there are a single digit number of cards in the set, so how about 1869 Peck & Snyder with the advertising text back? I believe the total population is in the low single digits.

The Three Bagger and Home Run backs were redeemable for baseballs so while I'm sure there was a diverse population of those backs at the time of printing the vast majority got turned in for a baseball. There's a reason that virtually all of the 3B and HR backs that have been found are Gehrig and Ruth -- they're most likely to have been kept despite the prize involved. Finding a "common" with one of those backs is like trying to get a wet noodle up a bobcat's ass in a telephone booth.

Arthur

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by HasselhoffsCheeseburger

The Three Bagger and Home Run backs were redeemable for baseballs so while I'm sure there was a diverse population of those backs at the time of printing the vast majority got turned in for a baseball. There's a reason that virtually all of the 3B and HR backs that have been found are Gehrig and Ruth -- they're most likely to have been kept despite the prize involved. Finding a "common" with one of those backs is like trying to get a wet noodle up a bobcat's ass in a telephone booth.

Arthur

Do you believe that all W502s were printed with the Three Bager and Home Run backs?

[HasselhoffsCheeseburger]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

Do you believe that all W502s were printed with the Three Bager and Home Run backs?

I have a Bob O'Farrell with a Home Run back so I have no reason to believe that all of the cards in the set weren't printed with all of the back variations.

Arthur

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by HasselhoffsCheeseburger

…Finding a "common" with one of those backs is like trying to get a wet noodle up a bobcat's ass in a telephone booth.

Arthur

That’s a hilarious quote right there!

[ValKehl]

Both types of Leader Theatre (Located in Washington, DC) cards are rare. Leon showed the W575-1 type earlier in this thread, and here is the W573 type:

[ValKehl]

Similar to the Wool's Bread card of a boxer that Adam W. showed earlier in this thread, here are couple of rare W551 cards of baseball players with Wool's Bread backs:

[Directly]

This was the the first T206 I purchased twenty years ago at St Louis and wasn't familiar with back variations. (Piedmont back)

I recently noticed this PSA quotation on my older order lists--curious was this common explanation at that time (unknown back)?--sold the card years ago, and before PSA had photos linked. Thanks!

-------------VERY GOOD-EXCELLENT 4 1909-11 T206 Unknown Back Ty Cobb Portrait-Red ------------

[rcbb14]

nice cards!

[Leon]

Shown once before, but, when it comes to rarity of backs, if I didn't have it in my first collection (total humility here ), it's probably rare.

I don't really remember seeing others just like this but I am sure some are around.