From: Michelle Gobert <director@crandonpl.org> Subject: Re: Logging stamp identification Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 17:34:11 +0000 Message-ID: <CY4PR07MB2821E8EA5C85222F2BA0ABE2D9800@CY4PR07MB2821.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>
Thanks to all who helped with the logging stamp identification question. I
have some great leads on how to identify the mark!
Thank you,
Michelle Gobert
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ve.uwec.edu> on behalf of Karen Baumgartner <krbaumga@pctcnet.net>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 5:58:17 AM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: Re: Logging stamp identification
Was the log stamp found in Forest County? If not, get some history of where
it may have come from. Looks like it has been under water for awhile.
Look at old plat books for the name of a lumber company land holdings with
the initials RMc (or whatever it is). I’d start looking for a McDonald.
Has anyone indexed old county Plat books? A place to start.
Forest History Association of Wisconsin may know of log mark books and reso
urces.
Were log marks registered with the state?
Wisconsin Log Marks by Howard Peddle<https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byli
ne_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Howard+Peddle&search-alias=books&field-auth
or=Howard+Peddle&sort=relevancerank> (Author) – 1980 is a book out th
ere somewhere.
Michigan has a great resource. I didn’t see the mark you are looking for
while quickly scanning the contents online. The book has chapters on areas
of Michigan – perhaps upper Michigan logging company is a possibility.
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/MichiganLogMarks_384832_7.pdf
Karen Peterson Baumgartner
From: Michelle Gobert<mailto:director@crandonpl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 3:16 PM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu<mailto:localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu>
Subject: Logging stamp identification
The Forest County Historical Society has a visitor interested in identifyin
g and dating this lumber stamp. Any ideas on how we would go about this?
Thanks,
Michelle Gobert
Crandon Public Library / Forest County Historical Society