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Virginia St., George Leavens, undated

This stamp is on the west side of Virginia Street just south of the Eureka intersection. Unfortunately, it’s undated, which is true of all the George Leavens stamps I have found. There is another one further south on this side of Virginia, though it’s not as clear.

Unfortunately I don’t have anything new to say about George Leavens, but I’ll take this opportunity to point to my previous post about George Leavens because I learned a lot of interesting things about him. Last time I wasn’t quite sure what the word in the middle of the stamp was, but this stamp is quite crisp in that regard, so I have confirmed my guess that it says “MAKER.” It seems like an unusual but less awkward version of the “MFGR’S” that appears in Minnis & Ewer stamps. (It took me ages to notice that the “G” in that does not stand for anything!)

Facing south on Virginia Street. This is on the corner lot with Eureka.

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Virginia St., Dave Price Construction, undated

This stamp (actually a pair) is on the west side of Virginia Street between Eureka and Prospect. This is the first appearance of Dave Price Construction in this blog. The sidewalk is undated, so Dave is lucky I didn’t put this in the Hall of Shame. It looks like the driveway was probably done at the same time.

OpenCorporates has a listing for Dave Price Construction, LLC, incorporated in 2008 and dissolved in 2011. They were located in Charlotte. Interestingly, the only two names that show up on any of the documents filed are a Sherri Price who signed the Articles of Incorporation and a Manuel Moreno who was the registered agent and CEO. This led me to imagine the following dialogue:

“So Dave Price… does he own the business, or was he just the founder?”

“Oh, neither.”

“Then why is it called Dave Price Construction?”

“Dave is just the guy we send out to actually do the construction. We point him at a stretch of sidewalk and say ‘Get working.'”

Looking south on Virginia Street, which is a little one-block street between Eureka and Prospect which, like its sister street Rosamond, isn’t really part of the normal street grid.