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Another really common thing with Tad originals is that the dates get scratched out and rewritten A LOT. Many of my Tad drawings have scratched out dates. They really are baffling. Early collectors also had a nasty habit of tearing off the engraving orders from the versos. Very frustrating!
Classic Judge Rummy, but I've gotta say: no way this is 1911. I'd say it's a good ten years later than that. The "11" in the corner probably refers to either November or the 11th of the month. Tad's numerical notations are often baffling.
The problem of the inscrutable numbers on TAD's drawings as they survived is that many of them were re-used and reprinted at various times. When this happened, the original dates (which were month/day dates, never with years) were usually scraped out and rewritten in a later hand. So these numbers are unreliable for dating, and that's why they're so confusing. The only real standard for dating these is to find their original publication date in the NY Journal. Almost all of the Indoor Sports and Judge Rummy drawings in my collection have scraped out and renumbered dates.
Thanks! I agree. Even by the high standards I hold Bushmiller, this is a killer strip.
