FYI....T206 POLAR BEAR confirmed list

[tedzan]

Dated Oct 7, 2020

The St Louis variations of Demmitt & O'Hara were only printed with the POLAR BEAR back.





To date, my checklist indicates 250 subjects have been confirmed with the POLAR BEAR backs.
The following lists these cards according to their respective T206 series.

350-only Series..................138 subjects

Abbott
Adkins
Anderson
Arellanes
Armbruster
Atz
Barbeau
Barger
Barry (A's)
Barry (Milwaukee)
Batch
Beck
Beckley
Bescher (portrait)
Blackburne
Bliss
Brain
Brashear
Bresnahan (bat)
Burchell

Burke
Bush
Carr
Carrigan
Casey
Chappelle
Clancy
Clark
Clymer
Collins (Milwaukee)
Congalton
Cravath
Davidson
Delehanty (Louisville)
Dessau
Dorner
Downey (fielding)
Joe Doyle (hands over head)
Dygert
Easterly

Egan
Engle
Evans
Ferguson
Fiene (portrait)
Flanagan
Freeman
Fromme
Ganzel
Gasper
Graham (Boston)
Graham (St Louis)
Gray
Grimshaw
Groom
Hallman
Hayden
Hinchman (Toledo)
Hoblitzell
Hoffman (Providence)

Hofman
Howard (Chicago)
Hulswitt
Jackson
Jones (Detroit)
Kelley
Kisinger
Kleinow (New York-catching)
Knight (portrait)
Knight (bat)
Krause (portrait)
Krause (pitching)
Kroh
Kruger
LaPorte
Lattimore
Lavender
Livingstone
Lord
Maddox

Maloney
Mattern
McGann
McGinnity
McGlynn
McLean
Merritt
Milan
Milligan
Miller (Pittsburg)
Moeller
Moran (Chicago)
Moriarty
Mullen (portrait)
Murray (bat)
Nattress
Oakes
O'Brien
O'Neill
Perring

Pfeister (seated)
Phelps
Phillippe
Pickering
Purtell
Puttman
Quillen
Quinn
Randall
Raymond
Rhoades (arm extended)
Rhodes
Ritter
Rudolph
Schirm
Schlafly
Schreck
Scott
Shannon
Sharpe

Shaw (Providence)
Slagle
Smith (Chicago, white cap)
Smith (Buffalo)
Snodgrass (bat)
Speaker
Stanage
Strang
Jessie Tannehill (Washington)
Taylor
Thielman
Titus
Unglaub
Warhop
White (Buffalo)
Willett
Wright
Irv Young


350/460 series...................58 subjects [plus Demmitt and O'Hara (St Louis) variations]

Ames (hands over head)
Baker
Bender (no trees)
Berger
Bradley (bat)
M. Brown (Chicago)
Burch (fielding)
Cobb (bat off shoulder)
Conroy (bat)
Crawford (bat)
Harry Davis (A's)
Demmitt (St Louis American)..........included in this print run
Donlin (bat)
Doolan (bat)
Dougherty (arm in air)
Downey (bat)
Larry Doyle (bat)
Elberfeld (Washington-fielding)
Griffith (bat)
Jennings (one hand)

Jennings (two hands)
Johnson (pitching)
Jordan (bat)
Joss (pitching)
Kleinow (Boston)
Konetchy (glove low)
Lajoie (bat)
Lake, St. Louis (no ball)
Leach (cap)
Leifeld (bat)
Magee (bat)
Manning (pitching)
McIntyre (Brooklyn & Chicago)
McQuillan (bat)
Mullin (bat)
Murphy (bat)
Nichols (bat)
O'Hara (St Louis Nat'L)....................included in this print run
O'Leary (hands on knees)
Overall (yellow sky)

Pelty (vertical)
Pfeister (throwing)
Reulbach (no glove)
Rucker (throwing)
Seymour (throwing)
F. Smith (Chicago & Boston)
Snodgrass (catching)
Stahl (glove)
Steinfeldt (bat)
Street (catching)
Sweeney (fielding)
Tinker (bat off shoulder)
Wagner (bat on right)
Doc White (Chicago-pitching)
Wilhelm (bat)
Willetts
Willis (throwing)
Willis (bat)
Wiltse (pitching)
CYoung (glove)


460-only Series..................46 subjects

Abbaticchio (blue sleeves)
Ball (Cleveland)
Bell (follow thru)
Bergen (catching)
Bescher (hands over head)
Bridwell (portrait-cap)
Camnitz (hands over head)
Camnitz (arm at side)
Chance (bat)
Chase (trophy)
Crandall (portrait-cap)
Devore
Duffy
Larry Doyle (portrait)
Ford
Frill
Gandil
Geyer
Herzog (Boston)
Howell (hand at waist}

Hummel
Lake, St. Louis (ball)
Latham
Marquard (pitching)
McGraw (portrait-cap)
McGraw (glove at hip)
Merkle (throwing)
Meyers (portrait)
Murray (portrait)
Needham
Oldring (batting)
Overall (blue sky)
Payne
Pfeffer
Schaefer (Washington)
Schlei (portrait)
Schlei (bat)
Schulte (back view)
Seymour (portrait)
Sheckard (glove)

H. Smith (Brooklyn)
Stovall (bat)
Tannehill (Chicago)
Tinker (bat on shoulder)
Wheat
Wiltse (portrait-cap)


Six Super-Prints

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


TED Z
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[barrysloate]

What happened to Demmitt and O'Hara?

[T206Collector]

Beat me to it by a minute, Barry.....

[Abravefan11]

Hi Ted - A couple more for the list.

[tedzan]

Ha !

I was testing you guys to see if any one really reads these lists and would notice the absence of Demmitt and O'Hara

It took you less than 5 minutes....I'm proud of you, ole buddy.


TED Z

[barrysloate]

You know I hardly ever read them. I guess I picked the right one to get started.

[Dave1943]

Ted,

I have 2 Merle 'Doc' Adkins cards graded by SGC.

Respectfully,

Dave

[Robextend]

Ted,

Have the Waddell Polar Bear cards been confirmed? There are no examples on the SGC pop reports as well as VCP.

Thanks - Rob

[4815162342]

I have Cy Barger (see National pickups thread).

[willworkforT206]

Ted,

I have four to add to this list....I have Arellanes, Barbeau and McLean (shown below). I also have Beckley, but don't have it scanned.

Thanks.

Steve

[refz]

Ted,

is this subset comparible with old mill? i always thought polar bears were more towards 350 350/460 subjects? thanks for the input!

regards

Danny

[tedzan]

Listed here are the 69 subjects that I would identify as POLAR BEAR No-Prints. These POLAR BEAR No-Prints are 350-only series subjects.
All T206's in the 350/460 and 460-only series....and, the six Super-Prints were printed with POLAR BEAR backs (Total = 109 subjects).


NO-PRINTS

Abstein
Arndt
Becker
Bender (trees)
Geo. Brown (Washington)
Burns
Butler
Byrne
Campbell
Cassidy
Charles
Collins (A's)
Cree
Cross
Dahlen (Brooklyn)
Demmitt (New York American)
Dineen
Donovan (throwing)
Doolan (fielding)
Downs

Dubuc
Dunn (Baltimore)
Dunn (Brooklyn)
Elberfeld (portrait-Washington)
Fiene (throwing)
Fletcher
Hall
Hannifan
Hartsel
Hoffman (St Louis)
Howell (portrait)
Huggins (portrait)
Huggins (hands at mouth)
Hunter
Killian (portrait)
Knabe
Lennox
Lundgren (KC)
Malarkey
Marquard (portrait)

Marshall
McAleese
McBride
McCormick
McElveen
McGinley
McIntyre (Detroit)
Mitchell (Cinci)
Mitchell (Toronto)
Moran (Providence)
Mowrey
Myers (bat)
Myers (fielding
Oberlin
O'Hara (New York Nat'l)
Paskert
Phelan
Poland
Rhoades (hands at chest)
Rossman

Schmidt (portrait)
Starr
Stephens
Street (portrait)
Summers
Sweeney (Boston)
Thomas
Wilson
Zimmerman


T-Rex TED
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[Jason Carota]

You can add Speaker to the list, Ted. I don't have a scan anymore, as I sold it a few months ago.

[tedzan]

Thanks everyone for your new inputs. The list will be updated tomorrow.....as, we approach 312 cards.....the theoretical number of
possible POLAR BEAR cards.

The definite No-Prints are........

Geo. Brown (Washington)
Dahlen (Brooklyn)
Demmitt (NY American)
Elberfeld (portrait-Washington)
O'Hara (NY Nat'l)


DANNY G (refz)


There are similarities between the OLD MILL's and the POLAR BEAR's. However, the Timeline of when these 2 brands were printed differs
by about 5 months.

The 350 series OLD MILL's were printed very early in 1910. The 350 series POLAR BEAR's were printed circa May/June 1910.

Subsequently, there were several press runs of both brands that included all the cards in the 350/460 series and the 460-only series.

Also, I might add that TOLSTOI shares many of the same fronts as OLD MILL and POLAR BEAR cards.


Great question.


TED Z