Oakland Underfoot

1663 Auseon Street

This has the typical configuration of other Kopperud marks, with all three parts of the date underneath.

1609 86th Avenue

This mark is from very early in 1914, January to be precise. The month is up inside the mark, and the day and year are underneath.

1434 84th Avenue

Yes, the 5 is upside-down, but I think it’s a real 5. All of the 1920s Banchero marks I’ve seen—hundreds of them—used a regular-old 2. And of course in the twenties it was “Banchero & Co.”

1957 85th Avenue

I’ve recorded a similar hand-drawn mark from 1948 by H. O. Mart, with a different phone number.

8400 block of Olive Street

M. Cvetich was always punctilious about his marks.

2072 83rd Avenue

Here’s a far superior strike of J. Widell’s mark from this year—probably the best one he left in Oakland.

1437 85th Avenue

This is the second example I have from the mysterious A. Nelson, and it confirms his name. I think he was very likely the mysterious Albert Nelson.