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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ExoMan, post: 2038184, member: 72588&quot;]I&#039;d not before seen this one, Bruce.&nbsp; Logo punches with the town are ones that I find to be extremely desirable.&nbsp; In your case, the personal connection is icing on the cake.&nbsp; While my Dad wasn&#039;t a collector, he gave me two, old coins that sparked my interest in the hobby, precipitating my discovery of a coin catalog at the local library back in the 1950&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of the shoemaker stamps tend to be a curved logo of sorts, like yours. My suspicion is that these cordwainers or leather workers may have intentionally used this design so as to cut across the grain of the leather and not so much weaken the area when applied.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a counterstamped quarter that I&#039;ve long suspected to be a Maine issue:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]371716[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Davistown Museum collection in Maine has listed a razee plane, used by ship builders. It bears the mark of a C.A. Spear, along with a Masonic symbol. I wrote to them some years ago, hoping I could see if it was a match.&nbsp; Sadly, I never received even a courtesy reply.&nbsp; I was hoping to send them some counterstamp pics, pertaining to Maine toolmakers that would spice up their illustrations.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I suspect that Spear&#039;s first name was Charles, I&#039;ve been as yet unable to confirm it. I found that one Charles Adrian Spear married a Harriet Murdock in Hallowell, Maine in 1856. He may have been from Gardiner, born in 1831. He appears to have worked in Warren, Maine and possibly later worked in Boston and Sommerville, Mass.&nbsp; I have yet to see another example of this stamp. I suspect that it may have been a personal, pocket piece; this, akin to a Masonic penny.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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