Type collecting at it's best......D302

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>It seems like everytime I think I am getting closer to completion (Pre-1950 ACC baseball type set).....I find another. This isn't pre-war but close....I like the overprint too...but not so much the bite out of the corner. So much for collecting high grade....I wonder if it was a rat or something? <br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1163445728.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Jerry Hrechka</b><p> Dang Nab racists rats chewing on Jackie Robinson's card - A hate crime if I ever saw one.

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Posted By: <b>steve f</b><p>Get outta here... Rats in Brooklyn? What an intense expression.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>There's a Ninth Street in Brooklyn not too far from me, but I don't recognize the "N.W.". Brooklyn streets don't have that kind of designation. That would virtually have to be local, so I'm guessing since the late forties street names have been changed. That to me is the most interesting aspect of the card.

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Posted By: <b>Bill Todd</b><p><br />It looks to me like the stamp refers to a location in Washington, DC rather than Brooklyn. The streets here do have NW/NE/etc designations, and there's a Shaw/Cardozo neighborhood that runs from approximately the zero mark (North Capitol Street) to 11th, and from M Street (the 1200 block) up to about U Street (2000 block). <br /><br />1708 Ninth Street NW is on the northern edge of the area.<br /><br />A Bond Bread card with a DC stamp? Stranger things have happened. The area was a center of culture and arts for the black community in DC, and Robinson would have been, well, pretty popular.<br /><br />Bill

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Washington D.C. was exactly what I was thinking. So that means the cards were distributed outside of Brooklyn. P.S.- that's not an apostrophe I see in "it's" in the title, is it?