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Originally Posted by tedzan
The Postmark date on that Ebay example you are referring to means NOTHING !
Back in the 1940's and 1950's, us old-timers would frequently mail vintage Post Cards to one another.
The picture on that example (and my P/C) show the old Factory #33 Water Towers. Subsequent Water
Towers (> 1916) were modernized and display the Lucky Strike cigarette logo on them.
Look, I'm a vintage Post Card collector, and the style of printing and the texture of the cardboard on this P/C is an early 20th Century vintage product.
TED Z
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As a knowledgeable vintage postcard collector, I am sure you are well aware that these textured linen postcards are mostly all from the 1920's to the 1950's. There are numerous articles on their dating you can find online easily.
The original photo on which the art is based may, of course, long predate the issue, as happened often. This is a common postcard with many online at any given moment. I would love to see any evidence that it predates the linen postcard era and is from the time you claim.
A date stamp is indicative of the times a postcard was actually used, subsequent to production. The only one I can find is from decades after your claim, and fits into the linen postcard period. Again, I would love to see one with pre-1916 postal marks.
Further, even if it is from before 1916, which does not appear to be the case, it is not evidence the ATC was handling the Ty Cobb brand in 1910, as you claimed it was evidence of. It would need to be from 1910 or earlier for it to be evidence that the ATC was controlling Penn before the 1911 purchase. Do you have any evidence at all that this is from 1910 or earlier?
I suspect the Cobb card is from 1910-1911, that the ATC was probably controlling Penn before the purchase, and that the Cobb card was printed by one of the lithographers in their orbit during this period. But this postcard is not evidence of that whatsoever.
01-11-2023, 12:18 PM
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