New T206 for the Howe McCormick Collector

[canjond]

Originally Posted by StuckInOmaha

Of the 142 I own, there are 7 with a Hindu back, 17 with an Old Mill back and the remaining 118 are all Piedmont.

In my saying I have 142, I forgot the 5 my wife told me to bid on and she would pay for my Christmas gift. Don't know if she has paid yet or not, but that would be another 5 Piedmonts.

There are 18 cards I know the location/owners of, and of those 15 are Piedmont, 3 are with a Hindu back.

Finally, there are 24 that I know exist, but have lost track of who the owner is now (eBay auctions that I didn't win and haven't been able to contact the new owner), there are another 12 Piedmonts, 3 Hindus and 9 Old Mills.

That gives a total of 189 cards I know of that exist with his stamp on the back. Really hope he didn't smoke that much, as at the time, he was only 14. For this many to have survived paper drives, careless mothers, etc., he must have had many, many more.

Ed - just curious what leads you to believe these were collected when he was a youth. If anything, I would think that a 14 year old kid would not have a stamp that had his address on it in 1910. Rather, I could see him compiling this collection later on in life and stamping the cards then. By chance, did you ever send an email to Lionel asking him if the name was familiar. For all we know, this guy may have been a good friend of the early pioneers!

[Myachelydra]

Nice gesture. Ed, continued luck in your quest.

[Howe’s Hunter]

but from birth to 1918, I know where he was. Birth records show he was born the son of John McCormick at 500 W. Main St., Gainesville, Fl in July of 1896. His army discharge papers in 1919 list his home address as being in Acuta, FL (the handwriting on those forms is hard to read, but that is the best I can make out from the scans I've recieved). So his cards had to be collected, and stamped with that home address between 1909 and 1919, between the ages of 13 and 23. The next record for him show he, his wife and daughter living at the same address listed on the discharge papers (that was the 1935 census) and his occupation was 'sales'. No more records exist until a death certificate filed on July 31, 1976. So to have stamped those cards with that address, there was a narrow time from birth to around age 23 he lived at that address. I do have the one card that uses his first name (Urich), middle initial (H) and the same 500 West Main address, but also lists him as an Agent for the Saturday Evening Post. I've talked to several who thought maybe as a "delivery boy" for the post, he had to stamp invoices to those he took the paper to, and probably had several stamps for such purposes/ That part is a wild guess.