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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

In the recent thread "the scarcity of T206 So. Lgers" we also ventured into POLAR BEAR's (quite appropriate, given the "ice age"
we are having). Revisting the No-Print Polar Bear (PB) list, I have noticed that the majority of the 48 Major Leaguers depicted in
the 1910 Coupon's (issued concurrently with the T206 - 350 Series) are PB No-Prints.

Furthermore, there is a strong relationship between these PB No-Prints and the aforementioned "Quintuplicate" back design.......
illustrated here. At least 36 Subjects that were not printed with PB backs were printed with at least four (if not all 5) AMERICAN
BEAUTY, BROAD LEAF, COUPON, CYCLE, and DRUM backs.


Updated (12/22/08)....POLAR BEAR Major League NO-PRINTS with annotated Coupon cards.

Abstein
* Becker
* Bender (trees)
Geo. Brown (Washington)
Burns
* Byrne
* Campbell
* Charles
Collins (A's)
* Cree
Dahlen (Brooklyn)
Demmitt (New York)
Dineen
* Donovan (throw)
* Doolan (fielding)
* Dubuc
* Dunn (Brooklyn)
Elberfeld (portrait-Wash)
Fiene (throw)
* Fletcher
* Hartsel
* Hoffman (St Louis)
* Howell (portrait)
* Huggins (portrait)
* Huggins (hands/mouth)
* Hunter
* Killian (portrait)
* Knabe
* Lennox
* Marquard (portrait)
* Marshall
McAleese
* McBride
McCormick
* McElveen
* McIntyre (Detroit)
* Mitchell (Cinci)
* Mowery
* Myers (bat)
* Myers (fielding
O'Hara (NY)
* Paskert
* Rhoades (hands/chest)
* Rossman
* Schmidt (portrait)
* Starr
Stephens
* Street (portrait)
* Summers
* Sweeney (Boston)
* Thomas
* Wilson
Zimmerman

NOTE....* Subjects that are in the 1910 COUPON set = 39

Confirmed POLAR BEAR Subjects that are in this Coupon set = 9

Engle
LaPorte
Willett

and the Six Super-Prints....which of course would have PB backs

Chance (yellow portrait)
Chase (blue portrait)
Chase (dark cap)
Cobb (red portrait)
Evers (bat-yellow sky)
Mathewson (dark cap)


Given that the AMERICAN BEAUTY, BROAD LEAF, COUPON, CYCLE, and DRUM backs were issued around the Summer of 1910,
what can we conclude regarding their linkage to the PB No-Prints with respect to a timeline ?

And, of course if any one can confirm any of the above listed PB No-Prints with PB backs, by all means please post you input
here ?


TED Z

I want to thank BRIAN W for alluding to a linkage between PB No-Prints and the A-B-C-D backs.