Does this "two faced" Jack White tell us anything about the printing?

[Howe’s Hunter]

While after 20 plus years I’d gotten 395, the 950 plus find revealed several new things. I’d never seen any with what we can only guess was Howe’s writing on them. I’d never seen any with more than one stamp. And just the sheer randomness of what cards he had, ones he had multiples of, and commons he had none of is still a head scratcher.

One thing to consider … both the McCormick family and the Howe family lived above the McCormick Howe Grocery. Howe had a sister approximately four years younger than him, and a cousin who was the child of his uncle John Howe that was younger than his sister. Maybe the younger ones got into his stash of cards one day while he was at school with their rooster rubber stamp on and scribbled on the cards? Howe, as an adult, told his daughters friend Ron that he never traded for cards or gave any away. Everything he got was from the store and was either the cards left by buyers of cigarettes that didn’t want them, or perhaps his father and/or uncle were smokers. But the writing and stamps would have to be from within the family.

[ALBB]

Now there was another guy from the old neighborhood named Jack White, and he was a back stabbing, two faced liar ..as I recall

[mybuddyinc]

Pat, I also just noticed that all your White examples all have a printer's mark on front bottom border. Don't know if that helps anything.

As far as "who got into Howe's show box" it could also be that the "other marked" cards belonged to someone else, who then gave them back to Howe.

There were only two "Rooster Stamps" -- Brain and Myers, bat.
Others included --
A penciled "M" (maybe ~50)
A "what the heck" ink scribble, all of which, I believe, were on Baltimore cards (less than 10).

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Fun, fun, Scott