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jonathanb
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Almost certainly on a 1908-S Indian cent, not that we can prove the mintmark any more...
(Anyone know where the comics collectors hang out? I'd love to get some idea of value from their perspective...)
(Anyone know where the comics collectors hang out? I'd love to get some idea of value from their perspective...)
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<< <i>I have to ask..how can we be sure or even close its an S mint ? >>
Pretty sure he was joking
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<< <i>Pretty sure he was joking >>
Nope, totally serious. I'll explain in a few hours if nobody else figures it out. (Hint: Can you ID the engraving?)
Forrest's great, great uncle.
TD
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<< <i>Pretty sure he was joking >>
Nope, totally serious. I'll explain in a few hours if nobody else figures it out. (Hint: Can you ID the engraving?) >>
Im close ..i know ive seen it before but the date is wrong for what im thinking.
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<< <i>Pretty sure he was joking >>
Nope, totally serious. I'll explain in a few hours if nobody else figures it out. (Hint: Can you ID the engraving?) >>
The cartoon character was Andy Gump. See:
linkadoo
However, the strip was drawn here in Chicago, and has nothing to do with the store, Gump's, in Sam Francisco!!!
TD
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<< <i>Pretty sure he was joking >>
Nope, totally serious. I'll explain in a few hours if nobody else figures it out. (Hint: Can you ID the engraving?) >>
The cartoon character was Andy Gump. See:
linkadoo
However, the strip was drawn here in Chicago, and has nothing to do with the store, Gump's, in Sam Francisco!!!
TD >>
My money is on its " Mutt & Jeff " and ive got the house on it.
Nearly a hundred years ago on November 15, 1907 a San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist, Bud Fisher began drawing a daily comic strip called "Mr. Mutt.". A short time later, he added the diminutive Mr. Jeff, and "Mutt and Jeff" was born. Mutt was a tall, lanky man with a penchant for the ponies, while Jeff looked like the Monopoly man after a rough weekend. Mutt and Jeff were affable losers; the guys in the cheap seats at horse races on a Wednesday afternoon. In 1932, Fisher formally turned production of the strip over to Al Smith, who continued to draw it until two years before its demise in 1982.
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R.I.P. Bear
Lance.
If you go with the idea that it's Mutt, and that it's real, and that the date is accurate, then the question is what was circulating in San Francisco in 1908. I'm guessing that not much coinage managed to cross the country in 1911, and of the stuff that did, it took on average more than 3 years to do it. So if someone had a 1908 cent in 1911 San Francisco, I'm figuring that it was probably S-mint.
...and since none of this can be proved or disproved, that's what I've got.
jonathan
For what it's worth, "Bud" Fisher's birthday was (drum roll) April 3rd!
So, the engraved piece commemorates his birthday!!
TD
<< <i>I guess you're right, it is Mutt of Mutt and Jeff.
For what it's worth, "Bud" Fisher's birthday was (drum roll) April 3rd!
So, the engraved piece commemorates his birthday!!
TD >>
Thats an interesting turn.Out of interest , how would one go about creating a like piece of artwork on a 1c in 1911 ? No dremel tools in those days , it would take quite a bit of work really , wouldnt it ?
<< <i>No dremel tools in those days , it would take quite a bit of work really , wouldnt it ? >>
I don't know the techniques, but it couldn't have been that hard. Jewelers have been doing engraving for millennia...
Ron
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<< <i>No dremel tools in those days , it would take quite a bit of work really , wouldnt it ? >>
I don't know the techniques, but it couldn't have been that hard. Jewelers have been doing engraving for millennia... >>
Thats what im driving at , a jeweler would engrave , not a cartoonist.One needs to be in an enviroment conducive to engraving,theres a world of difference between sketching with a pencil and engraving.
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