Lets talk Tango Eggs...

[tulsaboy]

I thought it was interesting that there are 21 different cards known, which isn't many, but as of last night you could buy 5 different ones on ebay. That seemed like a fairly high percentage for such a hard to find set. I learned something new this week about a different set. Thanks to everyone for sharing!
kevin

[ullmandds]

Tango eggs were the first "Black Swamp Find" of sorts for vintage cards...imho. Cards that were quite rare and not widely known until the "find!" Now these cards were more widely available...many in high grade. The set has a stigma...like BSF cards...atleast to me they do.

[Griffins]

Originally Posted by tulsaboy

I thought it was interesting that there are 21 different cards known, which isn't many, but as of last night you could buy 5 different ones on ebay. That seemed like a fairly high percentage for such a hard to find set. I learned something new this week about a different set. Thanks to everyone for sharing!
kevin

If you look at the. pops from the letter in the first post there are tiers of scarcity.
Bescher and Jennings are relatively plentiful, Meyers, Dooin and McQuillan only slightly less so. Collins, Weaver, Murphy and Chase aren't tough and can be found, but they've dried up a bit. Those 9 can be put together with a bit of patience, and they are all found in high grade more often than not.

Zimmerman, Bridwell, Bresnahan and Crawford are really tough. Schaeffer, Cobb, Cobb, Morgan, Plank, Felsch, Evers and Oakes are essentially impossible, with 1 or 2 copies known.

I"d love to see even 1-2 more of the set found, but seems increasingly unlikely.

Does anyone have a spreadsheet of what backs each of these can be found with? I"m toying with a back run of a few of them

[tulsaboy]

Thanks for clarifying that for me, Anthony. That makes sense, as the examples available on ebay seem for the most part to be repeats of 2 or 3 players.
Really neat set.
kevin

[gst6]

I love this set because the beat-up (extremely rare) cards are much more desirable than the (comparatively plentiful) mint condition cards. Don't see that often.