How rare are 1928 Harrington Ice Cream cards

[FrankWakefield]

I think that there aren't all that many Harrington's out there. Most folks have none. Several collectors have one, or maybe two, as type cards. A few collectors are actually chasing them, and some of those have completion. I have only one, it's the Uhle card that's depicted in the Standard Catalog. A few years ago the SC lacked an image, I mailed my card to Mr. Lemke so that the catalog would have an image. (It's a strange sensation mailing a card or two of some value to someone not met, with an expectation that the fellow will send cards back. Bob did, of course. He's a great fellow.)

And what Dan has there is true... Some of the old, thinly collected sets have low pops in those reports because most of those few collectors don't fool with third party grading, and never will. Additionally, I would suspect that a few of the Harrington's have been submitted more than once. Those reports can provide an inkling, an idea... but they fall short of reality. Truthfully, they fall in between how many cards have been graded and how many times they've graded a card. eg, if the pop report says 200; and if 10 cards had been resubmitted, 4 in slabs and 6 broken out. Of the 200, 10 of them were graded twice. The graders knew of 4 resubmissions, and were clueless of the other 6. And, that's assuming that they bother to account for the 4 known resubmissions (which in my estimation it is a bit doubtful to think they would account for all 4). So of that 200 number, 190 cards were graded once, 6 of those 190 cards unknowingly graded twice, and 4 knowingly twice. A total of 194 cards, but the reports would indicate 200.

Maybe a poll would be intersting... Harringtons: None, One or Two, A few and not actively collecting them, Actively collecting them and closing in on a set, and Complete Set... 5 options would be interesting, I think. Of course some of the "None" Net54'ers wouldn't bother to click a Harrington's thread, nor participate.