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Posted By: Bill Cornell

Pete-

Maybe that explains it. Lowell, MA (where the Baseball Bats candies were manufactured) and Winchendon, MA ("Toy Town") are only about 50 miles apart. Also, both Briggs and Close candies came from Cambridge, which is roughly the same distance from both towns. Maybe someone in Winchendon with a "Toy Town" rubber stamp bought these candies with the cards around 1910-1911 and left his impression on the back.

How some these cards wound up in TX in Scott's hands can only be guessed .

BTW, Winchendon is next to Gardner, once The Furniture City (now home of the world's 8th or 9th "World's Largest Chair") and Athol (say it without the lisp). History is decline.

Bill