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Joe_G.Information passed along by a friend . . .
I do not believe the BF2s came from Roxbury, Mass., a section of the city
of Boston. If the Ferguson Bakery, which is best known for the D381 set, along with Fleischmann Bakery of New York, did issue BF2s, it was as one of many issuers like the M101-4 and 5 sets, from which the BF2 photos are taken. Ferguson did not distribute outside the Boston area and BF2s can be difficult to find even around Boston, so I doubt there was a major production locally. The origin of the cataloged link between BF2s and Ferguson is the similarity between BF2s and the D381 premium, a pillow top with a circular design formed by felt pennants bearing D381 photos (which, incidentally, are all portraits, not full-body shots as in M101-4 and 5). There also is an advertising card that mentions pennants, but I've never seen an individual pennant in that style, so I'm not sure there
was a separate pennant issue. The pennants on the D381 premium are
considerably bigger than the BF2s.