1916 Green-Joyce Origins
 

Thanks to SteveD pointing me to a new site for old newspapers, I was finally able to pin down the starting date for the 1916 Green-Joyce cards and confirm that they followed Mendelsohn's marketing plan for department stores to sell these over the course of ten weeks in 20-card series. This is from the April 28, 1916 Columbus Dispatch (p.28):

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I now have a starting date for all of the 1916 department store issues except Block & Kuhl. Any help appreciated.

Every thread needs a card

Interesting post, Todd.

Are you going to post the dates that you have for department store issues?

Jackson... not hardly a normal Green Joyce.

Sure. Here goes:

Burgess-Nash: 5/06/1916
Everybody's: 4/22/1916
Famous and Barr: 4/15/1916 (per ad, but questionable)
Gimbel's: 4/15/1916
Globe: 4/29/1916
Green-Joyce: 4/29/1916
Herpolsheimer's: 6/21/1916
Ware's: 5/27/1916

Nice work, Todd.
Great card of Jackson there!

My type for the set...

Nice Carey card, LL... Max was slight of build and could fly like the wind.

Burgess-Nash... I've not ever seen one of those in person.

Watch out fellow hobbyists...Todd has another source to research! I imagine we are in for a windfall of vintage card info.


Brian