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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: Bill Cornell
I believe I made a minor hobby discovery today after I bought a 1911 Baseball Bats card (actually a cutout from a penny candy box) of Harry Davis that has a "Toy Town Post Office" stamp on the back: |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: scott brockelman
bill, |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: petecld
I did a little checking into "Toy Town" couple years ago after I bought a card with a Toy Town stamp. I have an E92 Dockman and an E97 Briggs with the stamp. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: Paul
I hate to sound like the kid in the Emperor's New Clothes, but where's the stamp? I don't see it in the scan. All I see is some scribbling at the top and the letters "ch" scrawled lower down. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: Bill Cornell
Pete- |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: petecld
Scott B. must have bought his at a National. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: Art M.
I own an E91-C Clyde Milan with the Toy Town stamp on the reverse. I also own a T206 Jennings, 1 hand showing, with Cycle 460 back that has the Toy Town stamp on the back. I have seen a T206 Bender, portrait, with Piedmont back that had the Toy Town stamp. (This card used to be in Frank Wrights collection.) |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: fkw
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: RC_McKenzie
On ebay about 3 years ago I bought an Eddie Collins Baseball Bats that had the toy town stamp. Neither the seller nor I knew what it was. I relisted it as an Orange Border because the background was orange behind the b/w photo of Collins. R337 sent an email to me that it was actually a baseball bats. He might have bought it, I don't remember. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: Art M.
Here is a picture of the T206 Jennings and E91-C Milan with Toy Town post office stamp on the reverse. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: Paul
Just so people don't think I'm a complete idiot, the scan of the back of this card was very different when it was first posted. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: hankron
My mom grew up near a tiny town named Christmas. At that festive time of year, the population at its Post Office swelled with people getting the 'Christmas' stamp on their packages. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: scott brockelman
pete, |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: brian parker
At one time I owned a lower grade T206 with a Toy Town Post Office stamp. I have always envisioned that the someone who collected these cards was a retailer and came upon the idea that they could stamp and give the cards out to customers (probably kids) when they bought candy or merchandise as a way to promote sales. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: runscott
I always thought that stamp was for a West Coast tobacco product, since it is found on so many obaks. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: Bob Lemke
Timely thread, this. Our sister publication Stamp Collector recently had an article on European versions of the post office play sets and it became evident to me that these cards were probably the result of a kid enamored with his rubber-stamp and ink pad out of an American kit. I'm going to make a notation to that effect in the 2004 Standard Catalog. I'd say these are "damaged goods". |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: TBob
As why does his name appear on so many of my otherwise great looking Obaks????? |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: jay behrens
possibly a tobacco shop? |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: leon
I have several E99 and E100 PCL cards with the "Gilliam Squire" purple stamp on them.....personally I think this kind of stuff is cool....and lowers the potential cost of some cards....it's a win win......gosh, I hate that term regards all |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: scott brockelman
gilliam squires is just another collector from 90 years ago, that did what many collectors of the day did, he rubber stamped his cards. another large group of cards, especially obaks, come with a blue "russell sewall" stamp. granted some of these people had large collections, they are neat but in no way add totheir value, on the other hand the devaluation is probably to different degrees with different collectors, some prefer crease free, some centering, some photo clarity, each person has their own parameters and asthetic desires. |
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"Toy Town Post Office" stamp
Posted By: brian parker
All the Gilliam T. Squires cards I have are for 1910 era PCL issues. I, like Leon, think it is kind of cool that the card has this link to its previous (perhaps original) owner. Then again, I even like writing on the back. My all-time favorite card with writing on the back is a Zeenut of Bob Meusel that states "Meusel is nothing but a old flat lunch." Not exactly a member of the Bob Meusel fan club. |
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