Weil Baking - backs anomaly

[Jobu]

Side note: 4914 Prytania St no longer exists so I am guessing the building was torn down. Right now 4914 would fall about on a driveway between a Chase Bank (4910) and Kyoto (4920), a popular sushi restaurant. When I lived in New Orleans (moved in August) my place was about 10 blocks from here and I walked and ran by it all the time. I was just getting back into collecting when I moved so I didn't even know how cool that spot was until it was too late and I was in Wisconsin.

[ZachS]

Originally Posted by Jobu

Side note: 4914 Prytania St no longer exists so I am guessing the building was torn down. Right now 4914 would fall about on a driveway between a Chase Bank (4910) and Kyoto (4920), a popular sushi restaurant. When I lived in New Orleans (moved in August) my place was about 10 blocks from here and I walked and ran by it all the time. I was just getting back into collecting when I moved so I didn't even know how cool that spot was until it was too late and I was in Wisconsin.

I went through the old New Orleans Sanburn maps to find as many locations as I could for all the factories that distributed NO issues. There are still a few left standing today like the W. R. Irby branch of Liggett & Myers on Magazine (law office now), People's Tobacco on Julia St (a warehouse), and General Baking (a school).

It's pretty neat to see these buildings still in use today and to see them in person.

[nolemmings]

For anyone interested, I reviewed 156 different Weil Baking cards today for additional printing anomolies and found these:
partial "a": Ainsmith, Baird, Betzel, Brown (a lot missing), Fisher, Foster, Getz, Gowdy, MageeL, Mann, Milan, & Stallings
mark before "a": Bescher, Betzel? Byrne, Gardner, Groh, Mack, McBride, Mollwitz, &Tinker
mark after 4 pips: Clarke, Crawford, Wajo, Russell, Walker and WilsonA
The only one who did appear consistent was Betzel, who had a mark before the "a" in one example and a partial "a" in the other.

Of course feel free to add any others.