1933 Cobb Patent Card on eBay

[JollyElm]

For those of us not in the know, what is a patent card? I'm thinking it's an example for the issuing company's copyright/patent purposes?

[MW1]

The one on eBay looks like a fake/reprint.

[drcy]

In the old days you hand to send in samples or models of what you were submitting for patent or trade mark. Fair to assume these were such samples.

[drcy]

In the old days you hand to send in samples or models of what you were submitting for patent or trade mark. Fair to assume these were such samples.

Not sure why the are called patent cards, though. They seem more like copyright samples. Can't imagine there was any patent involved, though perhaps the 'patent and trademark' office were/are one.

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by drcy

In the old days you hand to send in samples or models of what you were submitting for patent or trade mark. Fair to assume these were such samples.

Originally Posted by drcy

In the old days you hand to send in samples or models of what you were submitting for patent or trade mark. Fair to assume these were such samples.

Not sure why the are called patent cards, though. They seem more like copyright samples. Can't imagine there was any patent involved, though perhaps the 'patent and trademark' office were/are one.

You had to send them in twice?

[pro9]

As others have said, the one on ebay is fake. You can tell by the space between the border and the stamp combined with the fact that the "C" and the "I" are cut off like on the original. The difference being that on the original the rest of those letters missed being stamped on the card as the stamp was not fully applied on the card whereas on the copy there is the space.