Blank Back Issues Carrying Local Retailer Backstamp

[edjs]

Originally Posted by Jobu

I will follow Val's (love that WaJo) with my only card that meets the OP's description. I thought it had to be the only autographed card from this set until I was recently surprised to see a signed Harry Hooper.

Bryan, you can add this to the list now, I just got it back from authentication.

[whiteymet]

Bringing this thread back after 5 years. Hoping others can add to it.

Here are some Exhibit cards with stamps ads on the reverse of the cards

Salutation Exhibit with Playland Amusement Park in Michigam, Mantle Miami Fun Fair in Florida, Dodgers team card with a cool ad for bicycle repair etc. and Mantle Dad's Cookie cards from Vancouver Canada and finally Pittsburgh Post Gazette cards. I have both baseball and Basketball with different writers shown. Have a Jackie Robinson with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette back too.

[ValKehl]

I'd trade my first born for a Sam Rice card with this back stamp.

[Lorewalker]

Savannah, GA 1949 or 1950...

[brianp-beme]

Around a year or two ago while searching Ebay I came across two separate lots with a handful of W575-1 blank back cards, both from the same seller. I ended up winning both lots. I had noticed on the scans that one of the cards (Whitted) in one of the lots had a back stamp, and that another card appeared to have one as well. When I received them, lo and behold, with the help of a magnifying glass, each card had this back stamp! On most of the cards it is only partial and barely visible, amazingly even less so than the McInnis shown below (have some fun finding the scant traces of stamping on the McInnis), but heck the stamp is still there on each card.

Here is a thread about them from 9 years ago, which makes the interesting connection between the Service Candy Co. stamps and the Henry Johnson stamps, based upon both companies having the same phone number.

https://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=170808

So the takeaway is to always have a magnifying glass handy when examining those blank backsides, because there might just be a trace of stamping there!

Brian

[Al C.risafulli]

Great discovery, Brian.

I've only seen a couple of Service Candy cards since that thread almost a decade ago. I've still got mine!

-Al

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Al C.risafulli

Great discovery, Brian.

I've only seen a couple of Service Candy cards since that thread almost a decade ago. I've still got mine!

-Al

Thanks Al, and to think that without the obvious Whitted card I probably would not have noticed that all the other cards are stamped too (some only have a couple of extremely light letters visible under magnification).

Brian