T206 with John Anderson stamp

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Posted By: Donny Muth

Hey some of the talk on the boards about people collecting cards that formerly belonged to specific people got me thinking about a T206 that I have.

Does anyone else have any T206's with a stamp from John A. Anderson?

The stamp reads:

John A. Anderson, Agent
The Saturday Evening Post
114 UNION AVENUE
Bala. Penna.

Mine is a Rudolph (Toronto) with EPDG back.



Post em if you got em! Thanks!

---Donny

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Posted By: Kenneth McMillan

Do not have one with that stamp, but I do have a W575-1 Elmer Miller Stamped as follows:

R.M. HAYS & BROS.
BOOKS, STATIONARY, KODAK
WALL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES
HAGERSTOWN, MD.


This is apparently a defunct company that sold stationary and postcards in Western Maryland. Probably an owner relative of the company or bored employee.

Kmac

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Posted By: Anthony S.

I do have that stamp. Was looking through my T206's the other day to see if I had the Robt. Walton stamp (I have one) and noticed the John Anderson (Saturday Evening Post stamp) on one my cards. It's not exactly subtle, is it.

edited to add: Does anyone else have the "Buehler Bros." stamp? Have 3 or 4 of those, too.

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Posted By: Ken McMillan

Did a little further research on my w575-1 and it turns out that this is probably a Koester's bread card. R.M. Hayes & Bros company is from Hagerstown Md and E.H. Koester bakery is from Baltimore Md. The two cities are approximately 70 miles apart making the card very likely to be a Koester. The two card types are virtually impossible to tell apart and geography makes this probable.

Kmac

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Posted By: Bill Todd

Anthony,

I have one Buehler Bros. card. It's an M116, and IIRC it's Gessler. I always figured that the stamp represented a sales agent or shopkeeper rather than the owner of the card.

One of yours wouldn't happen to be Hobe Ferris, would it?

Bill

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Posted By: T206Collector

...and wrote to the Saturday Evening Post about it. Here's what they said in return:

In the first half of the 20th century (and maybe the end of the 19th),
magazine subscriptions were sold door-to-door and distributed weekly mostly
by "POST Boys". These were boys between the ages of about 10 to about 14 who
made a little money or earned premiums (toys, sports equipment, bikes, etc.)
for doing the distribution. There were also adults who received the copies
and passed them along to the kids. I think all were called "agents". Since
this is a tobacco card, this may have been one of the adults.

The Curtis Publishing Company (then owner of the magazine) was located in
Philadelphia until the mid-1950's. It then moved corporate to New York and
in the late 1960's to here, in Indianapolis. If the records ever existed,
they are long gone. I assume the address was probably Mr. Anderson's home.
Perhaps, the county clerk for Bath, PA could give you some history of the
address.

There are several books on the history of the Curtis Publishing Company and
The Saturday Evening Post. You should be able to find them at you local
library.

Dwight E. Lamb
Production Manager
The Saturday Evening Post
1100 Waterway Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-2156


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