I understand what you are saying Leon as the postcard had to manufactured before the date on the card, but absent business records from the company that made the card, we have to go by postmarks or dates next a postcard glued in a scrapbook or some circumstantial evidence.
So the only concrete evidence (speaking scientifically) we have to go on is that
The earliest it can ABSOLUETLY be dated would be the earliest postmark we have (right now 1910). This can obviously change with new specimens.
The latest it can absolutelyy be dated would be the latest postmark (1918 or something).
I would bet these were made between 1909/1910 and just kept being made as long as people bought them and eventually as the demand fell off, they stopped making them, probably around 1920.
Still, no way this is from his time in Weiser.
Rhys
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