23 Skiddoo postcard on eBay

[Dave Wilton]

The auction is back with the same 1907 date (click on "other auctions from
this seller" to find it). That doesn't seem to be the reason it was pulled.

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net
  http://www.wilton.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Evan Morris
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:29 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: 23 Skiddoo postcard on eBay
>
>
> Hmm.  This doesn't bode well for the P.O.S.H. ticket from the Lusitania
> I bid on.
>
> Reader notified/deflated.  Thanks.  I notice that the auction was pulled
> due to an "error in the listing."
>
>
> Sam Clements wrote:
>
> > The postcard is NOT from 1907.  The circle date stamp is very
> indistinct,
> > but that has nothing to do with it.  It has a divided back.
> Therefore it
> > was after 1908, when that started.
> >
> > It's a linen card, which means that the date stamp is almost certainly
> > 1937
> > or 47.  Just because the stamp used was part of the 1902 series means
> > nothing.
> >
> > I am postcard dealer/collector and I know one of the 5 largest
> dealers in
> > the US.  I just called them, and they provided confirmation of what I
> > just
> > said.
> >
> > The card is NOT from 1907 and almost certainly doesn't predate any
> > earliest
> > cites we have now.
> >
> > Sam Clements
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Evan Morris" <words1 at WORD-DETECTIVE.COM>
> > To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:29 AM
> > Subject: 23 Skiddoo postcard on eBay
> >
> >
> >> Via a reader:
> >>
> >> "Used postcard, linen in very good condition. Good corners with no
> >> creases... 23 Skiddo 23... on the front...Postmarked Clarksburg W.Va.
> >> 1907
> >> with series 1902 stamp...."
> >>
> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6552741434
> >>
> >> Card actually reads "23 Skidoo," not "Skiddo."
> >>
> >> --
> >> Evan Morris
> >> words1 at word-detective.com
> >> www.word-detective.com
> >>
> >
> >
>
>