Walter Johnson 1907 Postcard--Wow!

[Baseball Rarities]

Here is another 1907 stamp.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Good detective work, guys. Just goes to show though that you can jump the gun and get super excited about date stamps. You always need to do your due dilligence to back it up. Glad everything checks out with this one.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Good detective work, guys. Just goes to show though that you can jump the gun and get super excited about date stamps. You always need to do your due dilligence to back it up. Glad everything checks out with this one.

ditto! Awesome detective work! And I see that one of the random postcards also had a 6:30pm date stamp. Apparently that was a popular time to visit the post office to send postcards.

[prewarsports]

As a side note, I live pretty close to Weiser and have been there several times. At one point in time (about the time Walter Johnson was there) there were Opium Dens, whore houses and something like one bar to every 30 residents or something! It was a rough town in the middle of nowhere in Idaho and was a big railroad hub, so a tough "old west" town. Many of the original buildings and main street are still there and it is a cool place! If anyone is ever in the area for some weird reason, its a cool place to spend an afternoon!

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

As a side note, I live pretty close to Weiser and have been there several times. At one point in time (about the time Walter Johnson was there) there were Opium Dens, whore houses and something like one bar to every 30 residents

Sounds like my kind of town... I mean for the baseball history.

[D.P.Johnson]

Anybody know what the "deal" is with Walter's long-sleeve undershirt??? I mean, the stripes on the right and left sleeves look different. Also, the left sleeve appears "raised" in the forearm area (like he's wearing something under the sleeve)...Just wondering...It's a super cool postcard...

[ZachS]

Originally Posted by D.P.Johnson

Anybody know what the "deal" is with Walter's long-sleeve undershirt??? I mean, the stripes on the right and left sleeves look different. Also, the left sleeve appears "raised" in the forearm area (like he's wearing something under the sleeve)...Just wondering...It's a super cool postcard...

The stripes look the same. I think it's just the lighting. It's a small light colored band on each side with a darker color in the center.

The "bump" in the sleeve looks like where the shirt sleeve meets the cuff... just a long-ish cuff.

[ramram]

Amazing that the card Kevin posted above is only ten days after the Johnson postcard was stamped. Has all the same appearances. Top of the "1907" obscured, etc. It also appears that the football shaped portion of the stamp is possibly part of the same operation as the circle date stamp as it seems to always be placed at about the same spacing and with the lines in the same parallel fashion as the circle date stamp lettering. I suspect it was designed to catch both sides of the postage stamp. On the Johnson postcard it apparently just didn't get pressed down hard enough to run off of the postage stamp.

[slidekellyslide]

I deal in postcards pretty extensively...there is nothing wrong with the cancellation on that postcard.

Here are just two random cards I pulled out of a stack sitting on my desk