What kind of tag is this...

[chukers]

Just trying to figure what this is... haven't seen one like this...

 

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[ivan salis]

not a tag --try a "stamp" to address letters with for mailing -- ink then stamp on letter or package to address "from sender" --the persons "'name & address" ---it had a wooden base with slots cut it to slide the stamp on * the base had a handle on it -- stamp a ink pad then what you meant to mail --presto instantly "addressed"

 

[CRUSADER]

Clearly it slides onto a two rail attachment which might have been a mailbox/PO Box collection point.

 

[CRUSADER]

not a tag --try a "stamp" to address letters with for mailing -- ink then stamp on letter or package to address "from sender" --the persons "'name & address"

its not in reverse

 

[CRUSADER]

Just thought maybe it slide onto a piece of luggage or shipping box in case it got lost

 

[ivan salis]

thats a very good guess seems it has a frame looking sort of squared edge like a leather with hole luggage tag might have--it might be the "name plate "

 

[vhs07]

The bottom line might hold the clue. Brackenridge is no where near the gulf, and the numbers are not a zip code.

 

[ivan salis]

old phone number?

partyline phone number then --his line is "g" ulf 1

 

[CRUSADER]

The bottom line might hold the clue. Brackenridge is no where near the gulf, and the numbers are not a zip code.

so military luggage?

 

[chukers]

I am quite curious what the 440081 gulf 1 means.... I googled the name and the numbers with no luck...

 

[ivan salis]

might be a old phone number -- part line style --six digits and the your line -- g -1 -- "g is gulf"

 

[aaaaaaa]

Isn't G "golf" and not "gulf" though?

 

[Iron Patch]

I think 440081 might be an institution code in place of a zip code.

 

[Bramblefind]

Could "Gulf" have something to do with Gulf Oil? I think Breckenridge was an oil boom town.

Here is an obit I found from the Abilene Reporter News 10/10/1970 -

 

[Iron Patch]

Could "Gulf" have something to do with Gulf Oil? I think Breckenridge was an oil boom town.

Here is an obit I found from the Abilene Reporter News 10/10/1970 -

I think Gulf 1 (Gulf Coast) is simply the same idea as district 1, etc..

 

[Bramblefind]

Might be just a coincidence but his SS# starts with 440 -

Social Security Death Index
about Edmond Jernigan
Name: Edmond Jernigan
SSN: 440-10-3068
Last Residence: 70560 New Iberia, Iberia, Louisiana, United States of America
Born: 22 Sep 1906
Died: Oct 1970
State (Year) SSN issued: Oklahoma (Before 1951)

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I dont think we used any numbers before zip codes. The word GULF is not part of an address.

 

[Iron Patch]

I dont think we used any numbers before zip codes. The word GULF is not part of an address.

Ok, please fill us in on what it is.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I dont think we used any numbers before zip codes. The word GULF is not part of an address.

Ok, please fill us in on what it is.

LOL wow. Geez I dont have any idea what it is at this point. I am just saying that I do not remember using numbers in the address before the use of zip codes in the USA. I also dont think GULF 1 is part of an address.


The zip code for Breckenridge is 76424 and it is inland from the Gulf of Mexico.


Maybe its some kind of institution number like you say or maybe its a Gulf Oil work number.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Could "Gulf" have something to do with Gulf Oil? I think Breckenridge was an oil boom town.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Oil_Boom

The populations of many small Texas towns had even greater population increases when oil discoveries brought prospectors, investors, field laborers, and businessmen. Between 1920 and 1922, the town of Breckenridge in rural North Texas grew from about 1,500 people to nearly 30,000.[60]

The growth for many towns was only temporary. Growth in some communities was often driven by exploitation of limited oil resources, so once wells ran dry or demand slowed, their populations rapidly declined. When Wortham's boom ended, the population crashed from its 1927 peak of 30,000 to 2,000 people in 1929.[62] The population of Breckenridge dropped from a similar high to 7,569 in 1930.[