Is there Interest in an Obscure “Autograph” of an early short lived major leaguer?

[EddieP]

sow busom = sow bosom = sowbelly = salt pork.

The stamp dates around 1902- 05.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by EddieP

sow busom = sow bosom = sowbelly = salt pork.

The stamp dates around 1902- 05.

Thanks for that! Is there a source I could go to date stamps?

[EddieP]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

Thanks for that! Is there a source I could go to date stamps?

Here you go:
http://www.hamiltonphilatelic.org/pr...nt%20Green.pdf

I was off… the stamp was in circulation 1903 to 1909. Postcards started to have divided backs in 1907. So your postcard dates somewhere around 1907- 1909.

Finally
“ Am fine training every day going to swap a guy her(e) next month, and another at Las Vegas on Thanksgiving day. Best Rgds (regards), Toots”

Could “ swap” possibly be “scrap”?

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by EddieP

Here you go:
http://www.hamiltonphilatelic.org/pr...nt%20Green.pdf

I was off… the stamp was in circulation 1903 to 1909. Postcards started to have divided backs in 1907. So your postcard dates somewhere around 1907- 1909.

Finally
“ Am fine training every day going to swap a guy her(e) next month, and another at Las Vegas on Thanksgiving day. Best Rgds (regards), Toots”

Could “ swap” possibly be “scrap”?

Very interesting, thank you for the help on the stamp. Though as I said above I've read Rppcs did not have to follow the Postcard layout back rules. What you are referring to was mandatory for Government Issue postcards not for Rppcs. That is what I've read at least. Checking eBay looking up random years between 1900-1906 some do have divided backs. Will attach an Example from 1903.

As for Swap I don't think it says Scrap Just doesn't fit the context to me.
What I think he's referring to is making a trade with another team in person.

[EddieP]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

That is what I've read at least. Checking eBay looking up random years between 1900-1906 some do have divided backs. Will attach an Example from 1903.

Maybe, but RPPCs did not become affordable and mainstream until 1907.

“In 1907 Kodak created a service called “real photo postcards,” enabling people to make a postcard from any picture they took. Postage was a penny. People went nuts and now you can too: Harvey Tulcensky and Laetitia Wolff’s new book Real Photo Postcards (Princeton Architectural Press) showcases the phenomenon with a collection of bizarre and striking images (often with equally strange captions on the back)’

http://www.themorningnews.org/archiv..._postcards.php

I , also, think yours is a later date because there is no message in the front of the postcard (even though there was space in the front, he crammed more writing in the back to fit his entire message). Out of habit, even after Congress passed the bill to allow writing in the back people still wrote messages in the front.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

That is what I've read at least. Checking eBay looking up random years between 1900-1906 some do have divided backs.

It is not possible to have been prior to 1907, that stamp is a 300b booklet stamp due to the perforations showing it is the lower right sheet position. You have no chance of it being mailed prior to March of 1907 when the booklets were issued.

[steve B]

Where most read "swap" I read "scrap"

Which makes me wonder if he also did a bit of boxing?

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by steve B

Where most read "swap" I read "scrap"



Which makes me wonder if he also did a bit of boxing?

Who knows at this point. I feel thanksgiving day and Las Vegas does give that theory some merit!