[ScottFandango]

Collectors today are very lucky that they have modern conveniences to help their collections grow....Its Amazing what Burdick and other founding fathers were able to accomplish with snail mail and very little published information...

Today we have the Internet which connects us instantly to people around the world...we also have TPG's, registries and most importantly, Population Reports..

These modern tools need to be used to reevaluate what we have come to know as American Caramel Rarities....

Each individual collector will have his own subjective opinion of the difficulty of a card based on how quickly, or how cheaply a certain card was obtained...

a collector may have been very lucky, and come across a very difficult card early in the collection process, and this card is then thought of as being "not that hard" when in fact, it may not have been seen for many more years...

My Goal is to take subjectivity out of the E 90-1 set and come up with a more accurate depiction of a cards difficulty....Enter the Population Reports...

Both PSA and SGC have extensive Pop reports that are nearing 20 years old...

People may say they are inaccurate but a few crossovers or crack outs will not spoil the information within...Look at the Pop reports as "the most possible graded cards in existence." Yes, there may be less in actuality due to crack outs, but that inflates the population...so a very low pop card may actually have Less in circulation than stated, thereby supporting rarity levels...

Our founding collecting Fathers have traditionally called these cards rare:
Mike Mitchell
Joe Jackson

..and these cards Very Difficult:
Bill Sweeney
Hans Lobert
Dave Shean
Larry McLean
Hugh Duffy....

However, New evidence paints a different, Objective picture...


Without further ado, I present the COMBINED POP REPORTS of PSA and SGC graded E90-1 American Caramels...

Leach Throwing 25
Dougherty 25
Bescher 26
Stone Left hand 30
Lobert 31
Shean 32
Gibson back view 34
Siegle 34
Howell Wind up 35
McLean 35
Speaker 36
Wagner Throwing 36
Duffy 36
Stahl 36
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O'conner 38
Ritchie 38
Upp 38
Demmitt 38
Barry 38
Bliss 39
Leach Batting 39
Gray 39
Leever 39
Camnitz 39
Corridon 40
H Davis 41
Walsh 42
Young Clev 42
Sweeney 42
Keeler Red Port 42
Hartzell Batting 42
Karger 44
Mitchell 44
Bemis 44
Tenney 44
Pastorius 44
Sheckard 44
O'leary 44
McIntyre 44
Clement 44
Donovan 44
Stovall 45
Groom 45
Irwin 45
Bell 47
Clarke Pitt 48
McInnis 48
Gibson Front 48
I Thomas 48
R Thomas 49
Wiltse 49
Overall 49
Brandsfield noP 49
Lumley 50
Isbell 50
Phelps 50
Schlitzer 50
Blankenship 50
J Tannenhill 50
Butler 50
Keeler Throwing 50
Knight 51
Miller 51
Jordan 52
Donlin 52
Fromme 52
F Mitchell 54
Hall 54
Unglaub 54
G Davis 54
Ellis 55
Bush 56
Graham 57
Willis 57
L Tannenhill 58
Wagner Batting 62
Oakes 63
B Brown 64
Marquard 64
Joss Pitching 64
Schaefer 64
Krause 65
Bransfield P 67
Grant 67
Heitmuller 68
Bradley 68
M Brown 70
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Engle 73
Dooin 77
Dygert 79
Hartzell Batting 80
Mullin 80
Stanage 84
J Sweeney 85
Mcquillan 85
Stone LH 87
Criger 88
Bailey 90
Summers 99
Howell Follow 106
--------------------high pop HOF's--------/
Bresnahan 89
Collins 91
Chance 94
Clarke Phila 101
Crawford 107
Chase 110
Joe Jackson 115
Keeler Pink 116
Tinker 120
Lajoie 122
Joss Portrait 127
Bender 129
Jennings 129
Mathewson 132
Wallace 133
Baker 135
Plank 139
Young Boston 149
Cobb 234
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There you have it! They key to me is Bailey, Summers and Howell....these commons have been graded almost 100 times each...you can't say that there are so many Bailey, Summers, or Howell collectors that they altered the pop reports...these pop reports are truly indicative of the amount of cards out there...

There are really no outliers...an amazingly consistent pop report...

Only a handful of cards stand out as real Toughies!

So, say hello to the NEW MODERN RARITIES of the e90-1 set:

Tommy Leach Throwing
Dougherty
Bob Bescher ( the only card Steve soloway was unable to obtain for his set)
George Stone Left hand
George Gibson Back View
Johnny siegle (by far the lowest pop of any horizontal card In this set)
Harry Howell Wind up

Of special note are a few Rarities that are HOF's!
Tris Speaker
Wagner Throwing
Hugh Duffy

Enjoy!

PS..the T206 Wagner has one of the smallest pop reports in its set, verifying its status as THE iconic rarity....notice there are over 100 Joe Jackson e90-1..