1949 Schumacher Service Station "bonus stamp"
 

Just arrived from the recent Heritage auction:


http://www.ellisburkscollector.com/i...ce_station.jpg


On the back, between "Service Station" and "Wheel Alignment & Complete" is a stamp or wrapper transfer. If I flip the image upside down and horizontally, you can read "Spearmint - Peppermint ...... and Hawaiian Fruit."


http://www.ellisburkscollector.com/img/sss_back.jpg


Does anyone recognize what gum/candy that may be from?

Looks like it had a stick of Curtiss gum stuck to each card as a bonus.

Here's a bad photo, but you can see how it matches up

http://http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com...IMq435evBQ.jpg

http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225...IMq435evBQ.jpg

Second try :confused:

1949 Schumacher Service Station
 

That is a very cool odd ball item. Love it...

schumacher
 

is that why its authentic graded?
great buy at 100 regardless

Perfect! Thanks, Justin. It would be interesting to see if other Schumacher backs had the same transfer. Off to look.... :)


Thanks for the comments, Mark and sflayank (I think you are correct about the A grade.)

Just a quick follow up...


It appears Curtiss gum was attached to the Schumacher cards. Here is another example, courtesy of beckett.com:


http://img.beckett.com/images/items_...85571/back.jpg

Jason, my Schumacher - Stephens example has this same whatever-it-is on the back.
Val

Very nice! Thanks for posting the pic, Val.