E92s - Relative scarcity of backs?

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Posted By: leon

From my personal experience (I always say that as I am a relative newbie to collecting, albeit an addicted one, but a newbie nonetheless) I have seen about 9 Red Backs including the 6 I have owned/own. I got five of them from one gentleman that was an old time dealer and was 81 yrs young. He never mentioned what color the backs were until I asked. I was quite happy when he said they were red. I have probably seen 50-70 blue backs and a few more than that on the black ones....On the Cocoa's I have seen about 200 (yes, I have seen that many) and the Nadja's and Dockmans many more than that...Except for the red ones these are obviously close approximates....As we know most old time collectors didn't give a rats patoot about backs, which is sort of interesting....They collected E92 as one set....