Which is a tougher T206 back, Uzit or Drum?

[Sean]

David Hall is trying for one. I believe that he's 95% of the way there.

[MVSNYC]

Leon et al- there are several collectors working on master sets. One name was mentioned already, and there's at least one other person I know who's going for it, he posts here regularly.

PS- regarding which is tuffer, Drum or Uzit, I'll say this, I've been collecting T206 for 25 years, I've owned 2 BL460's, 4 Uzits and 5 Drums.

[Tao_Moko]

I have collected "raw" for 31 years now and know that I'm not alone. I would be more interested in a sample population of these backs, ungraded, from our own forum to compare to the pop reports. I believe that the results would show Uzit edging out Drum as the tougher back. The last Uzit I recall was at auction last year - it was Al Burch and the condition was just how you like them. Thinking it was NM and sold for $12k.

[DerekMichael]

I have actively sought out both Drum and Uzit for a handful of years now, maybe 6 or so. That is not too long at all, but I have owned 3 Drum's and 6 Uzit's in that time.

Although there are a great many people here who are in favor of Uzit being the tougher back, and they may well be correct, I personally have found that is much tougher to trade for or a lot more expensive to acquire the Drum backs, and that they have been much further out of my reach than the Uzit, which is also extremely tough.

My vote is that Drum is the tougher of the two.

[ullmandds]

So there was an alterior motive after all.

[VintageJay]

Speaking of UZIT, there is one a few threads down on the last page in the "Favourite T206 card(s)...."!