Stamp on 1936 National Chicle Fine Pen

[Rusty Cards]

I recently picked up a 1936 National Chicle Fine Pen Premiums R313 Hank Greenberg. The back of the card has two stamps with an anchor/sword design and the letters “C” and “H”. I attached a photo for reference. I haven’t been able to find anything about this stamp design, so I resorted to using ChatGPT for ideas. According to ChatGPT, this is possibly a watermark stamp used by National Chicle during that time. I’m not sure if this is correct.

Does anyone know if this stamp design was possibly used by National Chicle, or if these stamps might have been added by the store/establishment where the card was originally acquired?

[aelefson]

Hi-

I think it is a kid's stamp. I have had a lot of the fine pen premiums and have never seen that stamp. If it was a watermark or Chicle stamp it would be more prevalent (in my opinion). Regarding using ChatGPT, did you state that the item you had is a Chicle fine pen premium? If so, then it probably guessed that it is a watermark based on your prompt. If it said that without you stating what company made it, then that could be different.

Alan

[Rusty Cards]

Thanks for the reply. I did mention National Chicle in my ChatGPT research, so yes, it very well could be an assumption that ChatGPT made. When I try a general prompt asking “what is this,” ChatGPT doesn’t recognize it. I also tried a few other general ChatGPT prompts like the attached image.

I purchased this card from a seller who has several other Chicle Premium cards with this same stamp on the back. I’ll also reach out to him to see if he knows any information about it. I thought I would try this forum first.

[aelefson]

That is interesting if the anchor was used as a logo for Chicle. It would be really cool if that stamp could be definitively tied to Chicle. I hope it turns out that way.

Alan

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I received more information about the origins of this card. The seller I purchased the card from had acquired someone’s collection, and that person said his grandfather was the original owner. The CH on the stamp matches his grandfather’s initials, so his assumption is his grandfather stamped these cards for some reason.

I’m not sure if National Chicle had an anchor logo as ChatGPT indicated, but most likely this was a kid’s stamp. Thanks for your response!