You may be familiar with our store category which we now call Rubber Fridge Magnets which evolved from a category we had in an eBay store called Esther’s Sister’s Magnets, a group of several hundred rubber magnets Our Intrepid Leader bought for eleven dollars.
We have gone on to set ourselves up as experts, offering an ebook Esther’s Sister’s Magnets Illustrated Checklist Collecting Guide, soon to undergo it’s second revision with a number of new entries.
That’s because we’ve acquired ESTHER’S collection, but that’s not what this is about.
Our Intrepid Leader was just examining a group of those when he came upon an entirely unlisted mark, not found anywhere in the book. This seems like an oddity because it means Esther must have bought some magnets on the sly when her sister wasn’t looking, or maybe because they’re religiously themed, Esther and her sister didn’t see eye to eye when it came to purchasing religious fridge magnets.
Anyway, we are excited to announce that we have discovered the existence of Cross Publishing, Kenilworth, New Jersey, who made at least six religious magnets with very faint impressions on the back but which also significantly stated “Made In USA”, which our previous discoverees did not think to include.
We also have one example from this company (with the USA designation) which is marked Somerville NJ. There is a present-day commercial printer in Somerville by the name of Cross Publishing Co.
This goofs up the title of our book, which up until now has been:
Esther’s Sister’s Molded Rubber Magnets Checklist
An Extremely Serious Examination Of
The Molded Rubber Magnets of Ellisville and Cape Girardeau, Missouri
And Nearby Locales
Do we add “And New Jersey”? Or what? Include a section for Not From Missouri at all?
Stand by, this may take a while. It’s dramatic.
