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Posted 09/15/2014   12:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add maverickx to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello. Any info on these postmarks?



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I like the message sent to International Oil Company in 1901! I darkened up the image to make it more legible! The dials on the back are called receiving marks. I can't make out the dial on the front though?

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Posted 09/15/2014   06:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add maverickx to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for editing that pic! I had a hard time making it out. Interesting message about the oil, huh? So I'm assuming this individual had a lot of money?
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Posted 09/15/2014   08:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Interesting message about the oil, huh? So I'm assuming this individual had a lot of money?


Possibly, but not always. There were often those who invested the last dollar they had in get-rich-quick schemes and the early 1900s were ripe with promoters seeking investors promising potential fortunes in the West, especially in the mining and oil drilling industries.

This is probably the writer of the postal card, given the signature and the handwriting on the back reading Owenton, Kentucky--I can't read the postmark on the front of the postal card either:


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James William Cammack (b. 1869) — also known as James W. Cammack — of Owenton, Owen County, Ky. Born near English, Crawford County, Ind., July 15, 1869. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state senate, 1904-07; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1907-16; Kentucky state attorney general, 1927-31. Baptist. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias; Junior Order. Burial location unknown.


As for the addressee, it is Intermountain Oil Company, Kemmerer, Wyoming, c/o P.J. Quealey. (I found refernces to Mr. Patrick J. Quealey as one of the initial investors in Intermountain Oil:

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Edited by wt1 - 09/15/2014 08:07 am
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Posted 09/15/2014   11:47 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add maverickx to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Very interesting! Makes you wonder if he ever invested?
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Posted 09/15/2014   12:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like the writer gives his address in Kentucky.
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