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You are bidding on a scarce post card advertising post cards. It is copyright 1906 by Dederick Bros. of Hackensack, N.J. and is unsent. Back of the card is advertising their Conundrum line of post cards. Neat card in excellent condition.
That's it? I wrote to the seller and asked him what was the answer to the question on the card, since it was right below the question, albeit it in an unreadable form in two dimensions (it looks a bit like a bar code).
He said he really didn't know. (!)
I asked him if he wondered why a company trying to sell a new kind of postcard would pose such a question on the card without providing the answer. What would be the point? Who would bother buying them with no answer on it? I even told him how to get the answer.
Nothing.
For those of you who don't feel like printing it out and holding the paper longitudinally to "shrink" the letters, I had that area of the card resized and the answer is at the very bottom of the third image.
Considering the lameness of the answer, it's pretty apparent why this type of card never caught on.
In the "Catalog of copyright entries, Part 4, Volume 2 By Library of Congress. Copyright Office", I found 10 questions that Dederick Bros. entered in 1907 (4th and 5th images)..............but without answers.
(I have a question.............why is the man's wedding band shown on his right hand?)
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