Oakland Underfoot

1435 Derby Street, Berkeley

My interpretation of this weird mark is that the first Schnoor Bros. stamp had a hard 1915 date on it, and for a few years they coped with it by altering it with tool marks. Later on they mostly hand-drew the dates or carried a set of numbers.

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