US Schermack Control Perfins

Perfin Image
Cover
Number of Holes 9
Missing Pins 7
City NY
Company Brunswick-Balke-Collender, John Wanamaker Co.
1906 Series 314
1906 Series 320
1908 Series 343
1908 Series 344 39
1908 Series 345
1908 Series 346
1911 Series 383
1911 Series 384
1912 Series 408
1912 Series 409 1f
Total Count 40
Total Count On Cover 5
Earliest Usage 4/8/1910
Latest Usage 6/15/1910
Comments Manufacturer of recreational equipment. Billiards tables, record players, bars and back bars. With the threat of prohibition they expanded their operation to bowling lanes and equipment. Very rare on cover. This pattern is also known on three John Wanamaker covers, April 1910, prior to a known Brunswick cover. Wanamaker had already purchased control pattern 5689, but reported covers show a time gap in this period that may indicate mechanical problem. Perhaps this control pattern was owned by a mailing service and neither Brunswick or Wanamaker actually owned the Schermack Mailing Machine with this control pattern.