Peck & Snyder 1869 address - FINALLY !!!

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

It appears that we finally have an answer to our mystery... and it is an answer that will make EVERYONE happy!! (You didn't think that I had QUIT, did you?)



As you may recall, there was a lengthy debate about whether Peck & Snyder had ONE store in 1869 or TWO stores a block apart. I even paid someone to do research at the NYPL on this, but to no avail.

The debate was important since there are two DIFFERENT backs on the 1869 Peck & Snyder Cincinnati Reds CdV ... and some discussion about whether one is "older" than the other.

Also, remember that I have an old Peck & Snyder store receipt on which the printed Peck & Snyder address of "22 Ann Street" is crossed out and the receipt has been stamped with: "Removed to 126 Nassau Street, May 1, 1870"

Thus, since this proved that the Ann Street store location CLOSED in May of 1870 ... the question was whether they MOVED to the 126 Nassau location ... or simply MERGED with another Peck & Snyder store that had already been operating there.

I BELIEVE WE NOW HAVE AN ANSWER!!!



On Page 106 of "Baseball Treasures" (the book detailing the Kashmanian Collection)... they have a photograph of a Peck & Snyder base ball score book ...

with an 1866 copyright date on the front ...

and the 126 Nassau Street address!!



Thus, it now seems that the ONLY logical explanation is that Peck & Snyder had TWO stores by 1869 ... both of them only a block apart ... one of them being advertised as the baseball store and the other as the ice skating store ... and the two stores MERGED on May 1, 1870.

Andy Baran and other owners of the 1869 Peck & Snyder cards with "126 Nassau Street" on the back can now relax and know that their cards CANNOT be proven to be "NEWER" than the "22 Ann Street" cards.

A happy ending for everyone, and now I can start another project.

Andy - This is the "buyer's premium" that I owed you!