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Bird Box Logo "C B" is Bontems Variant
By Frank Metzger

The signature stamp Moe Goldy refers to, "C B" with a bird cage between
the C and B, is probably a variation on the stamp used by Bontems in
the 1875 to 1885 period.  Often the stamp was B(Blaise) B(Bontems) with
a bird cage between.

Perhaps a wrong stamp was used, or it was another member of the family
but, in any case, it was primarily Bontems who used the "birdcage
between two initials" convention for marking his bird boxes.

Frank Metzger

 [ "C B" is possibly Charles Jules Bontems, son of Blaise Bontems.
 [ See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Bontems  -- Robbie


(Message sent Sat 19 Dec 2009, 16:40:27 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

Key Words in Subject:  B, Bird, Bontems, Box, C, is, Logo, Variant

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