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The Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co. a fleet of passenger ships that sailed the Great Lakes. This control pattern is known on cover until 10/9/1911. This company's covers from 1912 on have control pattern 149. Control pin 4 must have broke sometime in between.
12
9
2-5
NY
David Williams Co.and related publications
47
The David Williams Company was a publishing company. Magazines included The Metal Worker and Iron Age. Patterns 2589 and 25789 are later pin versions.
13
9
2-8
DET
Tax Payers League, Taxpayers Protective League
90
The Tax Payers League was a political group organized to campaign against prohibition. Rallying behind tax increases that would be required to make up for lost revenue from banning alcohol sales.
Prohibition was supported by the WCTU, Churches and most business owners. Michigan was an early battleground state, the first to of approve prohibition.
Most postcards with this control pattern are found with political cartoons rallying against higher taxes. This pattern was recently found on Scott #314 on a postcard.. A used single of the #314 was recently discovered with the same control pattern
14
9
3-6
DET
C. A. Strelinger Co.
144
C.A. Strelinger Co. was a supplier of hardware and tools. No known covers Scott #409 ??
15
9
3-7
CHI
Babson Brothers and affiliated vendors
130
Babson Brothers were a mail order company supplying the Midwest. This control pattern is also found on envelopes from the many products that they sold. Burlington Watch, Edison Phonograph, Allen Vacuum Cleaner, Anglo American Insurance and The Insurance & Fidelity Co. Counting the several broken pin varieties known, they are responsible for the 2nd most known Schermacks with control perforations reported.
Only known pattern used on 3 cent stamp, Scott # 345. All known copies are hand cancelled, suggesting the envelope was too bulky to go through a cancelling machine. Recent certifications are calling them out as 483s. Totally impossible, this die had pin breakage starting in Mar 1911. Long, long before unwatermarked stamps were issued.
16
9
4-5
NY
Hammacher Schlemmer Co.
141
Hammacher Schlemmer Co. was a hardware supply company. Still in operation today.
17
9
4-6
Unknown
1
18
9
4-7
CHI
Ohio Electric Vehicle Co.
91
Still a mystery, but we’re getting closer. Ohio Electric Car Company was underwritten in 1909 in Toledo, Ohio. Cars were originally sold from 2011 Michigan Ave, Chicago. Initial production of 10 in 1910, grew to 650 by 1916. Company went out of business in 1918.
They were known as the “Cadillac” of electric cars. Priced from $2300 to $3200. Michigan Ave. was known as, “Gasoline Alley”, with no less than 65 car dealers located there.
No known covers with corner card return address. Very strange with this many used singles known.
19
9
4-8
CHI
Kabo Corset Co.
188
Kabo Corset Co., the name speaks for itself. This is one of the longest running control patterns. Starting in September 1911 and last known in March of 1914. Several un-explained gaps in cover dates, one over 1 year, suggest the company may have experienced financial problems from time to time.
More recent history had the company mass producing Playboy Bunny outfits for Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Clubs. The laced corset shrunk waist size by 2 inches.
