Gehrig gpc

[Forever Young]

What are people's thoughts on this Government postcard? This is a VERY interesting item.

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[yanks12025]

Is it just the paper color or does it look like parts of the name have been erased and rewrote??

[GKreindler]

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[bender07]

Originally Posted by Forever Young

What are people's thoughts on this Government postcard? This is a VERY interesting item.

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Seems odd that there are two postage stamps. One from Boston on Aug 2nd and the other from the Bronx on Aug 4th? The Bronx one looks very crisp as well.

[JimStinson]

According to the Baseball Almanac the Yankees were not in Boston on those dates. Begining August 1st until August 8th. They played the Browns, White Sox and Cleveland all at Yankee stadium. The 9th was a travel day to Boston where they played 4 games against the Sox 8/11-8/12.
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[baseballart]

Originally Posted by bender07

Seems odd that there are two postage stamps. One from Boston on Aug 2nd and the other from the Bronx on Aug 4th? The Bronx one looks very crisp as well.

I can't comment on the signature or on how postage stamps were used, but when I look at it, isn't the Boston stamp August 8 and not August 2, or are my eyes just particularly bad today?

Max

[JimStinson]

I thought the same thing that it might have been postmarked on the 8th from Boston , but even on the 8th the Yankees were still in NYC. Unless in 1937 Danbury CT didn;t have a post office and routed their mail through Boston
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[baseballart]

Is it possible there were two postmarks in the normal course? From August 4 to get it to Boston and on August 8 to get it to Danbury? (I know I should have been a philatelist).

Max

[JimStinson]

Yes, its absolutely possible that a GPC would have two postmarks , happens sometimes. But unless Lou elected to drive up to Boston after a game in NYC and then return it would not have been possible for him to be in two places at the same time. And he had that "consecutive game" thing he was working on too so he would not have missed a game to go up to Boston ahead of the team which did not arrive there until the 9th.
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[David Atkatz]

The postmark is certainly August 2nd (my birthday!), when the Yanks were in St. Louis.
Further, there are unambiguous signs of the writing being forged. An excellent forgery, to be sure, but a forgery nonetheless.