5821 Harmon Avenue
Marks by Stone are quite scarce.
1941 – Stone
2 June 20141939 – J. Rodrigues
1 June 2014
1230 Seminary Avenue
A nice example of this late Rodrigues mark—except for that one numeral.
1937 – (F. E.) Flaherty
31 May 2014
1931 – A. Soda
30 May 2014
5700 E. 17th Street
Soda’s home base was way over on the Berkeley line. Don’t see many of his marks in East Oakland.
1927 – M. B. Wiggins
29 May 2014
2515 Bancroft Avenue
Marks by Wiggins are few.
1914 – Hutchinson Co.
28 May 2014
5701 E. 17th Street
Another centenarian mark!
E. M. Hylt
27 May 2014
3688 Lily Street
A mark like this demands a Talmudic attention to font design. Is the obstructed first letter an E or an F? I was ready to guess F, but the 1911 Husted’s Directory for Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley has a listing for Eric M. Hylt, laborer, residing at 25 Franklin Avenue, which later became 39th Avenue. The 1922 directory lists him at 3732 39th Avenue, presumably the same house. The 1909 directory lists him as “cementwkr.” He wasn’t in the 1907 or 1910 directory.
This is his only surviving mark in Oakland.
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