Second Best Honus Wagner Portrait Card

[Baseball Rarities]

Originally Posted by jayshum

I'm not familiar with any of the cards so I'm wondering why the E90-2 gets so many votes and the E104-2 gets almost none. They look the same to me. Am I missing something? Why such a preference for the E90-2 over the E104-2?

The E90-2 has an attractive advertising for the American Caramel Company on the back while the E104-2 has a blank back. All things being equal, I think that most collectors prefer to have advertising on the card’s reverse as apposed to it being blank.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities

The E90-2 has an attractive advertising for the American Caramel Company on the back while the E104-2 has a blank back. All things being equal, I think that most collectors prefer to have advertising on the card’s reverse as apposed to it being blank.

Originally Posted by ullmandds

e104-2 is much more scarce than e90-2. Hardly anyone has one! additionally i presume there are many on this forum who have the e90-2...therefore they like it the best!

Thanks for the responses to my questions and the additional information about the 2 cards.

[pcoz]

Definitely the D322 Tip Top for me. Being a marginally bigger version of the Holy Grail is hard to beat. Wagner's portrait just stands out against that color back. E104-2 would be second for me due to the extreme scarcity.

[JimC]

Tip Top - - 1. The color. The scarcity. The design. The fact the set was issued just for Pittsburgh in honor of the Series. There's a Barney Dreyfuss card. Just an awesome set.

W600 - - 2. Fantastic early real photo image.

That blue M116 might be my #3.

Rose PC #4.

They're all cool.