1022 53rd Street
The next seven days will feature marks from westernmost 53rd Street, a cute winding road that parallels Temescal Creek along the Emeryville border.
1930 – V. Di Zillo
2 February 20111955 – J. Barale
1 February 2011
539 Merritt Avenue
When I collected pennies, my eyes widened whenever I found a 1955 because for some reason they made very few of them that year, especially here at the San Francisco Mint. It turns out to be the same with sidewalk stamps, as this is only the second one I’ve found. The date is beautifully defined.
1954 – J. Barale
31 January 2011
515 Merritt Avenue
1953 – L. Scaramelli
30 January 2011
577 Merritt Avenue
Scaramelli’s marks start in 1927 and scatter across the next two decades—with this mark, make that three.
1939 – P. Barale
29 January 2011
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.
1935 – W. Todd
28 January 2011
1091 66th Street
1931 – N. J. Lindstrom
27 January 2011
667 Wesley Avenue
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