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Hal LewisI guess an argument can still be made that BOTH stores were operating in 1869 and that the "22 Ann Street" store MERGED into the "126 Nassau Street" store...
but this would lead one to seriously question why Peck & Snyder would ever put the Ann Street address on any of their cards if they were already operating out of the Nassau Street store at the same time and planning on staying at the much larger 126 Nassau for decades (as they eventually did).
It also does not match up with what we know about Peck & Snyder having a store at "105 Nassau Street" in 1868. If they were already using Nassau Street as their mailing address in 1868 ... why would they ever put the Ann Street address on their cards at all UNLESS they had moved from Nassau Street to Ann Street.
In other words, if Peck & Snyder had moved their sporting goods store directly from 105 Nassau Street to 126 Nassau Street ... there would NEVER have been any reason to put "22 Ann Street" ANYWHERE as a mailing address ... since they would always have had that Nassau Street address that they apparently wanted.
The "Ann Street" cards were clearly made BEFORE May 1, 1870 ... whereas there is certainly some question about when the "126 Nassau Street" cards were made.