Nice Coincidence

Recently I bought a certificate of mailing. The address rang a bell and I found the postal card below. It has to be related, if not the same address.

Thought this was neat enough to share.

I like that kind of stuff, have you googled the Pollard company yet? I find it interesting to google old companies as well as addresses that are on covers.I think a collection of covers to the same address from the last 100 years or so from each decade would be outstanding.

I just googled Pollard Brothers, Proctorsville, VT and got "The 1891 Grain Dealers and Shipper Gazetteer(sic)", Central Vermont Railway System. Under Proctorsville, there was a Pollard Brothers.

I should have scanned the reverse of the postal card. It was a message from the agent for Cantripum (the best I could read the name) Overalls, telling when he would call on Pollard Brothers.

No hits on Bryant Pollard Co. The certificate of mailing was in 1960, so possibly they went out of business. After all it was 50 years ago.

One more update on Pollard---In an obituary for a lady which states she met her husband Bryant F. Pollard and that he was a partner in Pollard Brothers General Store. There marriage took place in 1925, so the business was still going then.

Gosh, prying into the past like this is both interesting and somewhat eerie. These people are long gone. Would they ever have envisioned someone in the year 2010 reading of them?

Interesting find Rohumpy.
It's great to read this kind of thing and have a delve or three.

Good luck on finding out more.

Londonbus1

http://books.google.co.il/books?id=...ille&f=false

Rohumpy !
Check this out on page 28 !
They sold stamps !

Stamperdude might like this link too.....it's from a 1913 Boy Scout magazine and page 28 is the Stamp Page !

What fun I had finding that.

now THAT is cool.

Here's something else to ponder...

http://cgi.ebay.com/VT-PROCTORSVILL...330480870898

The Scout magazine was 1915 not 1913

Great research guys - wonderful page Londonbus1, with all those stamp companies of the era

I cannot find any connection thus far between Bryant Pollard Co and Pollard Brothers.

I know which Bank they used, which cheques they had and who they dealt with in their business. But so far no connection.

Still no connection but I did find an old [undated] ebay pic of Pollard House which was once the General Merchandise store. Now it is partly a new housing scheme for the area whilst retaining it's charm. A ground floor shop still exists, selling crafts.

I could not copy the older photo but it can be seen at Flickr, search for Pollard House.
Here's what it looks like today.

man, LB, once you get your teeth into something...

SV, sometimes it just happens. You look...then you look some more....then you forget to go to bed ! It's now 1.20am !

Now I cannot get through to that link to the Scout magazine.
So if anyone else can, is there a street address on the Ad ?
I would like to make a connection but fear there isn't one.....and yet....

Londonbus,
The sign on the outside of the store says that it sells yarns and crafts. After stamps comes yarn as my second love...lol

No there isn't -- just "Bryant Pollard, Proctorsville, Vermont"

Donna Merkle looks like there is a guest house built on the top right side of the picture ready for you to move in.