Bishop & Company box - 1912

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Posted By: leon

Recently I picked this up on ebay. I put in a snipe of what I thought would be about 3x the final price. I thought no one would be stupid enough to put in that high of a bid. I was wrong and won it at my max bid (within a few dollars). It's at least a nice box and is somewhat unusual as it is dated. If anyone else has ancillary items of our card's mfgs, show them if you care to....(since we seem to have a "show me" theme going)...regards

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Posted By: Mark Macrae

Hi Leon,
Congrats on picking up the Calarab box. Bishop & Company manufactured and distributed a number of different types of food products, from Candy and Crackers to preserves, dried fruit and peanut butter. The cards were distributed in their 5 cent box of candy (they sold several varieties) . 1912 was the year before they expanded their production capacity. The following year they opened their third factory (In downtown San Diego....the building is STILL standing, at least as of October when I last drove by it). The preserves and candied fruit were distributed much further than their candy and crackers. While I highly doubt that Bishop cards were ever distributed with this product .... What kid would buy figs over chocolate ?!! .... it's still a great companion piece... Mark

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Posted By: 1880nonsports

but still a neat go-with and a pretty woman.... S.F.Hess you may have heard of them. Great colorful shield - too large for the scanner but you get the idea....

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Posted By: Richard

Congrats, Leon. Nice piece! A recent pickup for me as well:

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Posted By: Dan Kravitz

Peck & Snyder envelope... Baseball and Sportsman's emporium

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Posted By: Clint

Here's a nice condition Piedmont box.


Clint

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Posted By: Elm

I love seeing all these items from a long lost time and place and picking up on things.
Does anyone know when the game starting being referred to as "Baseball" and not "Base Ball"?
Also, in another thread there were pictures of a very old issue's back and it said "your" when it should have been "you're." I guess some things never change!