Oakland Underfoot

3426 Peirson Avenue

This example of Aaron Dahlquist’s 1931 mark used large digits for the month and year.

Now I need to reinspect all of Oakland’s sidewalks to document these variants.

3433 Peirson Avenue

It turns out that Aaron Dahlquist had several variants of his mark. My previous example used small digits for the month and large digits for the year. This one is all small.

3437 Birdsall Avenue

Like every L. M. Williams mark I’ve seen, this is lightly made and hard to read. Perhaps he was shy; perhaps he just waited too long before applying his mark. This one is a double strike.

3316 Birdsall Avenue

Farrer & Sons is a new maker in my experience, or should I say Farrer.&.Sons.

3410 Birdsall Avenue

These early marks by F. E. Flaherty, in the racetrack format, always intrigue me. This one pushes his record back by three years.

4427 Virginia Avenue

Either J or E was probably the dog.

4444 Penniman Avenue

Geo. Jardin has accounted for some hard-to-find dates. Here, he provides only my second mark from 1982.