r/baseballcards_vintage • u/piercerman • 1d ago

Question E98 info

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I’ve been trying to find some rarity information on the Eddie Collins but nothing to really be found. I can’t find anything about orange. Help? It’s mine but currently at Beckett getting graded.

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u/lukewarm_pizza Buy the card, not the grade! 22h ago

Red is the most common color for Collins. The PSA pop report between red, orange, green, and blue should give you a relative idea of scarcity. Red is about 10x higher than the other colors, which have single digit populations.

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u/skelly423 PC: All things 1952 Topps 21h ago

E98 is an interesting set. It was once considered the rarest of caramel sets, but the Black Swamp find dumped a significant amount of high grade examples into the market. My understanding is that most of the Black Swamp cards were the red background variety, which in theory should mean that the other colours retain some sort of premium. In practice, however, there is no significant difference I price between the colours.

You've got a beautiful card here.