The best Thai sticks that we had here on the East Coast yielded about 7 sticks per oz. There was a cheaper, green, Thai that numbered about 15 sticks per oz. The big ones were WAY better.

Thai on sticks seemed to leave about 20-25 years ago, and then it was sold stickless for a while. There was also "chocolate" Thai that was popular in the mid-late '80's - you could even get it from the street dealers . That was pretty good, but no match for the older "big" sticks of extremely strong top-grade ones.

Some of the better strains of today are, although different, very good and worthy of comparison to the good Thai.
Unfortunatly, I have no regular, local supplier for these strains (violins and tears, lol)