[78-L] Columbia question

[Andrea Walsh]

May I quote this info also?  Thank you!

Andrea

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrea Walsh" <petquality1 at gmail.com>
> > There are TEENY TINY letters "AY" under the "A" in "Columbia" does that
> > mean
> > anything?
> >
> YES! "AY" means the labels were ordered in (IIRC) January, 1917...!
>
> This was a short-lived system that Columbia used from 1916 until
> (again IIRC) sometime in 1920. The first letter is the month (A for
> January through L for December)...and the second the year ("Z" was
> 1916 and down from there...!) They got down to "V" in 1920, but
> that was later replaced by "P" at which point they gave up on the
> whole durn mess!!
>
> ...stevenc
>
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