The Original Owners of Our Cards

[shagrotn77]

This is the back of my 1932 Denby Billy Herman postcard. It was mailed to an Edgar Buchardt in 1932. Just for kicks, I searched the address and discovered that the home is still inhabited by the Buchhardt family - some 86 years later!

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[jerrys]

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[keating3620]

I have 75 diamond stars that my dad collected when he was a kid.

total investment $0.75

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by shagrotn77

This is the back of my 1932 Denby Billy Herman postcard. It was mailed to an Edgar Buchardt in 1932. Just for kicks, I searched the address and discovered that the home is still inhabited by the Buchhardt family - some 86 years later!

Well this particular post led to a crazy result for me.

I have postcards that Dots Miller sent to his family during the 1911 season, so I looked up the family. The first result that popped up was that they were still at the same house in the 1940 census, but the second search result after that was that one of those family members died on Christmas day this year at age 94. I've mentioned that I have relatives in common with Dots Miller, so I just had to inform some of them that their family member passed away a week ago, because they didn't get the news yet.

The second crazy part is that the second oldest of ten kids in that family, who was born a few years after those postcards were sent, is still alive! His sister just passed at 94, but he still has four other siblings alive, so they have some good genes in that family.

[Jason Carota]

[2dueces]

I can't post pictures on this site any longer. Well probably could, just to lazy to find a host but I own 38 T206's with F.F. Baker stamps on the back. Most here have seen them or know I actively collect them.

I collect T206's. More specificity I collect T206's with the former owners name stamped on the back. F.F. Baker was born Fredrick Frank Baker, January 25th, 1903 and died November 1973 in Richmond, Virginia. It appears he lived in the Richmond area his entire life. He and his family lived at 1318 Mosby. Prior to the 20's it was known as Mechanicville Turnpike but the house number was still 1318. His father owned a grocery store in 1910 and 1920 according to the census data, presumably at the same location. One theory is that Fredrick had easy access to cigarette cards from the customers