Purple Haze

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Posted By: leon

Well, I thought that title would jar some introspective thought. Here's a good question. I have recently purchased another card that has an overstamp back on it. It is the E121 series with a Johnson Candy overstamp (bought from Frank-thanks). It has the purple overstamp like so many of the other caramel/tobacco cards with overstamps of the era ie....the Old Put, Briesch, etc.....does anyone know why they mostly used the purple color? I would guess it is because it was available and was maybe used in different food businesses....best regards all....

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Posted By: petecld

Leon,

I read the title and started thinking about my best friend's bachleor party and we. . . .uh, never mind.

When you're talking about hand stamping, I believe the standard ink color for stamp pads was/is purple. That way when you stamp a sheet of paper with black copy on it it wouldn't affect readability. A black stamp over black text would start to make it hard to read.

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Posted By: scott brockelman

the purple stamp is commonplace, the e107 breisch williams overprints were not a factory print by any means, but an after the print process handstamp, as many are blurred, smeared, doubled stamped, etc & often traces are found on the front of other cards as they were stamped and stacked. i believe the old put stamp was also done this way.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Apparently, the company stamped some of these cards. Kinda cool, although from what I've heard from Zeenut collectors, not rare.