An excellent example of a T206 Hall of Famer with an extraordinarily rare back. With visible trimming at the top edge accounting for the Authentic grade this card features one of the rarest of all the different T206 back varieties. Indeed as of this writing PSA has only graded 82 T206s with Drum Cigarettes backs and between PSA and SGC only five Vic Willis cards with a Drum back have been graded.The overwhelming majority of Drum Backed T206 cards are low-grade with just one copy achieving a grade higher than EX 5. This Willis is no exception - besides the top edge trim there is back damage consistent with scrapbook removal. The purple "Drum Cigarettes" ad remains easily identifiable however and the card obverse aside from exhibiting visible surface wear is an excellent representation of Willis.The excellent research provided at T206Resource.com indicates that the Drum Cigarettes back is the fifth most rare of all the T206 backs behind only the impossible Ty Cobb back the Brown Old Mill and Lenox backs and the ultra-rare Broad Leaf 460 variety. There is no question that a T206 with a Drum Cigarettes back is a very rare card. What adds even another level of rarity to the equation however is Willis" status as a Hall of Famer. According to T206Resource there are just 21 Hall of Famers in the theoretical Drum 350 checklist. Recognizing that many prewar collectors choose not to get their cards graded (and thus grading company population reports clearly do not reflect the entire population of a given card by any means) and also recognizing that PSA only recently began recognizing the back variety on the T206 cards they grade the grading company population reports still reflect the extreme rarity of a Drum-backed T206 Hall of Famer: only 25 such cards are recognized on the PSA and SGC grading census combined!With a set as common as T206 that may seem almost impossible but it is not. SGC who has been categorizing back varieties since the beginning has graded more than 81 000 T206 cards. Of those just thirteen examples are of Hall of Famers with the Drum-backed variety.