Caramel Card set collecting

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Posted By: Brian McQueen

I know there are a bunch of caramel card set collector's out there so I wanted to start a thread to get everyone's opinion on the levels of difficulty putting together some reasonable Caramel sets. When I say reasonable, I don't mean e107 or e97 Proofs, more like e93, e98, e90-3, e103, e92...etc..etc..as I'm hoping this will be a great thread for beginning collector's to read as well.

I'm especially curious to hear people's thoughts on what specific cards seem to be easier to come by and which cards are more difficult in each set. A lot of this is speculative I realize, as everyone will have their own opinions on this, however I think it would be fun to hear about some of your collecting experiences.

For example....My thoughts on e90-3 are that you can get about 10-12 of the cards without too much of a hassle and then you just sort of hit a point where the cards become a real struggle to obtain. Schulte and Dougherty are commons that I see quite often and Walsh is a HOFer that's pretty easy to find as well. While I've always had an easy time with noted toughies Smith and Archer, Payne has given me problems as have some of the known toughies like Hahn and Gandil. Some of the HOFers such as Brown and especially Chance can be a handful to obtain as well. All in all, it's definately an accomplishment to complete this set as there are seemingly several cards in this set that are just plain scarce.

Hope this gives us a start...thanks for any and all contributions.