Posted By:
Hal LewisLeon:
You are also OVERLOOKING the most important bit of information on the card.
The card orders were sent to: THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY
So... we know that Peck & Snyder didn't make the cards since they sold sporting goods and had nothing to do with printing presses and photography.
AND... we now know that The American News Company WAS the original maker of the card AND the company who would get PAID to make the 100 extra copies that anyone was ordering.
BUT... there is no argument that the card was CLEARLY made as an advertisement for Peck & Snyder's and NOT the American News Company.
If the American News Company had wanted to go into the business of making cards and selling them for a profit as advertising tools, then THEY would have put THEIR company information on the back of the card as advertising in BIG BOLD letters.
In other words, there was NO REASON for Peck & Snyder to even be mentioned on the cards... UNLESS it was Peck & Snyder who commissioned the idea and who paid for the cards to be made.
Therefore... it is extremely unlikely that Peck & Snyder would offer OTHER companies the opportunity to order these and put THEIR company name on the backs.
Would Topps let Fleer buy their cards and just put Fleer on the back?? Would Bowman have let Leaf? NO.
Like I said originally... I truly believe that if anyone bought 100 of these cards through the mail from The American News Company...
the cards would have still come with the Peck & Snyder advertising on the back.
Otherwise... I think we would have seen at least ONE such card with "The American News Company" back in the past 135 years.
