Oakland Underfoot

559 Merritt Avenue

This pushes P. Barale’s dates one year closer to J. Barale, whose earliest mark so far is 1946. Even seven years after he stopped calling himself “P. Barale & Co.,” there are traces of the old wording here, and he never got himself a new stamp. If they were indeed custom-cast bronze dies, it was probably too costly to bother.

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