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05-26-2006, 04:54 PM
Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>instead of hicking the Bishop thread, I thought it would be better to start its own thread since I, along with tbob, am interested if anyone knows the story behind the Gilliam Squires stamp. First time I recqall seeing one was around 1983 when I first moved to CA and would see them once in a while at shows.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home, I would be arrested. So, I go to baseball games and fit right in.
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05-26-2006, 05:04 PM
Posted By: <b>robert a</b><p>It's tempting to get excited and think that Gilliam Squires might be associated with a certain issue such as E99, but it's been found on other issues as well. <br /><br />I think so far, the only stamps (not overprints) that have been found on only one issue are "swift" (e104s) and "old put" (e98s). <br /><br />The stamp never seems to be carefully applied to the card which tells me it might've been a collector (maybe even a kid with a stamper) who had a stack of cards and went through them one by one. It's not necessarily the collector's name though...could've been anything.<br /><br />One's thing's for certain. The person who stamped them had good taste in cards and was probably on the West Coast.<br /><br />robert<br />
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05-26-2006, 05:05 PM
Posted By: <b>robert a</b><p>Leon,<br /><br />What's the red stamp on the other e99?<br />Can't make it out?<br /><br />rob
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05-26-2006, 05:41 PM
Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>This is quite a coincidence, I read this thread today and was flipping through my collection about 10 minutes later looking for something entirely different and noticed this:<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/millerbr/bullet/squires.jpg">
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05-26-2006, 05:56 PM
Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>Here is a possible hit on Gilliam Squires, location and time frame seem like they could be about right:<br /><a href="http://www.svcn.com/archives/rosegardenresident/20060302/rg-news3.shtml" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.svcn.com/archives/rosegardenresident/20060302/rg-news3.shtml</a>
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05-26-2006, 06:39 PM
Posted By: <b>robert a</b><p>Nice Brian,<br /><br />That makes perfect sense to me. Wealthy Northern Cal. collector with lots of kids around. Thanks for the link.<br /><br />rob