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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Leon:

If I had ever seen one of these 1869 cards with SOME OTHER COMPANY'S ad on the back...

then I might tend to think that they were only selling them to other stores with "blank backs" so that the other stores could advertise on them...

but since I have never seen this, I have to believe that anyone who bought these cards from Peck & Snyder received them JUST LIKE this one -- WITH the Peck & Snyder wording already on the back.

To think that Peck & Snyder would sell them to other businesses but NOT sell them to customers off the street just doesn't make sense.

I think you are translating the language of the 1860's a little too literally.