9923 Birch Street
1945 – MI + AK
23 October 20151940 – Albany Concrete
22 October 2015
3644 Calafia Avenue
This is much larger than the usual Albany Concrete mark, leaves out the word “Co.,” and appears to be carefully hand-drawn.
1939 – C. Valenzuela
21 October 2015
1932 103rd Avenue
This splendid specimen includes the day and month. In fact, this is the first and only Valenzuela mark I’ve found that he stamped with the day and month (he hand-wrote one in 1959).
1939 – C. Fisher (Fischer)
20 October 2015
1832 102nd Avenue
The inconsistent C. Fischer spelled his name “Fisher” in 1938, too.
1936 – F. E. Flaherty
19 October 2015
1744 101st Avenue
This mark shows how carefully F. E. Flaherty did his handiwork, drawing a guideline and using a straight tool of some sort. Only the curves threw him. Oddly, just a few weeks earlier he used a different technique and had no trouble. His work was fine, but his brand wasn’t very good. I think he should have kept his old racetrack-format stamp instead of giving it up in 1935, but maybe it was stolen or something.
1936 – L. Banchero
18 October 2015
1952 100th Avenue
1930 – L. Banchero & Co.
17 October 2015
2000 103rd Avenue
