The fall of the candy card

[judsonhamlin]

I am still collecting some of the E sets, but not as a priority. E90 is frustrating because the same 40 or so cards are on eBay (Summers, anyone?) and the rest are catch as catch can - the 38 I need include many that I haven't seen at all recently, at any price even a ridiculous one. I collect e92,101 and 102 as one set, and that has even fewer cards for sale than E90.
Ah well, all in good time.

[caramelcard]

Hi Judson,

I agree. The E92s, E101, E102s have just disappeared. Again, I feel like it's because folks were selling them for what they thought was too cheap and decided to hold onto them. Especially the commons. The crofts candy and crofts cocoa fell so low I thought I could pick a few up but haven't seen many around.

Tim, nice cards! I guess they're not as rare as I thought? Well, you probably have more E98s right now then most people in the world right now so I'll stand by that comment.

I collect more tobacco cards then caramels at the moment but I'm looking forward to diving back into these small sets.

rob

[Bosox Blair]

I also agree with what has been said. I'm a big fan of E-cards. Aside from the Red Sox in those sets, I'm working on an E92 Dockman set.

Been 3 cards away for awhile now. Took advantage of the availability and very low prices over the last 3 years, but there are not many for sale lately...

Cheers,
Blair

[ScottFandango]

Originally Posted by judsonhamlin

I am still collecting some of the E sets, but not as a priority. E90 is frustrating because the same 40 or so cards are on eBay (Summers, anyone?) and the rest are catch as catch can - the 38 I need include many that I haven't seen at all recently, at any price even a ridiculous one. I collect e92,101 and 102 as one set, and that has even fewer cards for sale than E90.
Ah well, all in good time.

that is because the e90-1 SET has a huge dichotomy between common cards and rare cards...most are VERY COMMON, but they are a few dozen that are very rare indeed...its because these cards were not produced at once, instead having many different print runs....

i wont mention "SHADED REVERSE BORDERS" variations on this set cause i dont want to get into a heated discussion but.....search feature it

[judsonhamlin]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

that is because the e90-1 SET has a huge dichotomy between common cards and rare cards...most are VERY COMMON, but they are a few dozen that are very rare indeed...its because these cards were not produced at once, instead having many different print runs....

i wont mention "SHADED REVERSE BORDERS" variations on this set cause i dont want to get into a heated discussion but.....search feature it

I saw your old posts at the time about the shaded baseballs, and found them interesting. As far as the disparate head counts of the cards, I am amazed at the scale. I mean, for every 25 Krause, Summers or Mitchell (NY), I don't even see one Tenney, Dougherty or Bemis. That doesn't even get us to the true toughs - McLean, Speaker, Shean, Duffy, etc.

[ScottFandango]

even more interesting is :

1: there are ZERO shaded cards for sale on EBAY
2: the cards that have the shaded variation are all LOW POP players..
ie. summers and the rest of the commons have ZERO shaded versions..
3. when you look at the FRONT of the SHADED versions, they all have similar front images and color and all look like they came from a different set than the rest of the e90-1 (hint; think red backgrounds with full poses)
4. people on this board got caught up in semantics and missed the bigger picture that the shaded version painted: The rare tiers become more obvious when you look at the shaded versions that exist.
5. since the backs of E90-1 have long been considered identical, this "variation" had been undiscovered for 100 years!

good stuff

[judsonhamlin]

I think most of the red background cards are much tougher, along with (almost) the "sunset" images.
Great stuff for more research...