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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 59849" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">We had a FOUR number phone number on a old farm party line in the 1950's.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p><span style="font-size: 22px">S&H Green Stamps</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Sperry & Hutchinson began offering stamps to U.S. retailers in 1896. The retail organizations that distributed the stamps (primarily supermarkets, gasoline filling stations, and shops) bought the stamps from S&H and gave them as bonuses to shoppers based on the dollar amount of a purchase. The stamps—issued in denominations of one, ten, and fifty points—were perforated with a gummed reverse, and as shoppers accumulated the stamps they moistened the reverse and mounted them in collectors books, which were provided free by S&H. The books contained 24 pages and to fill a page required 50 points, so each book contained 1200 points. Shoppers could then exchange filled books for premiums, including housewares and other items, from the local Green Stamps store or catalog. Each premium was assigned a value expressed by the number of filled stamp books required to obtain that item.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?start=142&num=10&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbnid=6cd2Y4hNML0mVM:&imgrefurl=http://www.newseniors.com/trading-stamps-are-not-gone-they-have-returned-in-a-high-tech-form/&docid=VfNbtSlZndK7zM&imgurl=http://www.newseniors.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/SH-green-stamps.jpg&w=500&h=350&ei=Zy2CULndO6jziwK7woDQCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=964&vpy=383&dur=2707&hovh=188&hovw=268&tx=82&ty=70&sig=111327406997980573643&page=4&tbnh=145&tbnw=206&ndsp=52&ved=1t:429,r:91,s:100,i:277&biw=1680&bih=868" target="_blank"><img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQvmRayH_1ArxrETUNGjoE8uyQcY82lIcxL64o70mLWfoRJDVeq" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Opmmur, post: 59849, member: 13"] [SIZE=4]We had a FOUR number phone number on a old farm party line in the 1950's.[/SIZE] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [SIZE=6]S&H Green Stamps[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Sperry & Hutchinson began offering stamps to U.S. retailers in 1896. The retail organizations that distributed the stamps (primarily supermarkets, gasoline filling stations, and shops) bought the stamps from S&H and gave them as bonuses to shoppers based on the dollar amount of a purchase. The stamps—issued in denominations of one, ten, and fifty points—were perforated with a gummed reverse, and as shoppers accumulated the stamps they moistened the reverse and mounted them in collectors books, which were provided free by S&H. The books contained 24 pages and to fill a page required 50 points, so each book contained 1200 points. Shoppers could then exchange filled books for premiums, including housewares and other items, from the local Green Stamps store or catalog. Each premium was assigned a value expressed by the number of filled stamp books required to obtain that item.[/SIZE] [URL='http://www.google.com/imgres?start=142&num=10&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbnid=6cd2Y4hNML0mVM:&imgrefurl=http://www.newseniors.com/trading-stamps-are-not-gone-they-have-returned-in-a-high-tech-form/&docid=VfNbtSlZndK7zM&imgurl=http://www.newseniors.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/SH-green-stamps.jpg&w=500&h=350&ei=Zy2CULndO6jziwK7woDQCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=964&vpy=383&dur=2707&hovh=188&hovw=268&tx=82&ty=70&sig=111327406997980573643&page=4&tbnh=145&tbnw=206&ndsp=52&ved=1t:429,r:91,s:100,i:277&biw=1680&bih=868'][IMG]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQvmRayH_1ArxrETUNGjoE8uyQcY82lIcxL64o70mLWfoRJDVeq[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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