Drum or Uzit?

[tedzan]

The recent two DRUM finds bring the total to 132 confirmed T206's with DRUM backs....and in my book, relegate this back
to a less scarce status relative to the UZIT backs.

There are only 50 - T206's that have been confirmed with UZIT backs. This factor, alone, suggests that indeed the UZIT's
must be tougher. But, of course we have no knowledge of the actual quantity of how many of these UZIT's were printed.
And, although, there are considerably less UZIT-backed T206's, they may have been printed in greater numbers than DRUM's.

I really doubt this, as we know that the UZIT T206's were printed at the tail-end of the T206 production line (Spring 1911).
While the 132 (or so) DRUM T206's were printed in the timeframe of the Fall/Winter of 1910 (when T206 production was still
going strong).

Furthermore, consider the following UZIT "No-Print" subjects......

(a)....The 6 super-prints (Chance, two Chase's, Red Cobb, Evers, Matty)

(b)....Johnson (pitching)

(c)....CYoung (glove)

(d)....No Minor Leaguers


Conversely, the following major stars were printed with DRUM backs......

Baker
Bender (no trees)
Cobb (red portrait)
Cobb (bat off shoulder)
Evers (yellow sky)
Jennings (both hands)
Johnson (pitching)
Speaker

and 25+ Minor Leaguers

Someone has to hit me with some convincing facts to change my mind.....UZIT's are indeed tougher than DRUM's.


TED Z