RARE - LOT of 2 Trade Cards - Fred Morck Watchmaker Jeweler 1880 Warren PA oil

Description: NICE Old Advertising Trade Card Lot Great Graphic Advertising Frederick Morck - He had a secret Oil well at his house Watchmaker & Jeweler Warren, Pennsylvania ca 1880s For offer - a very nice old trade card! Fresh from an estate in Upstate NY. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, antique, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Fred. Morck. Great graphics. Warren Pa. Elgin watches, clocks, swiss, etc. Interesting history - Morck had a secret oil well at his house called the 646 mystery. See below. In very good condition. Please see photos. If you collect 19th century history, watchmaking, art design, American advertisement ad, Americana, etc., this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 3306 603 MARKET STREET, WARRENThis unique, 16-room, brick castle was built in 1886 by Frederick Morck andknown as “The 646 Castle,” named after the Cherry Grove Mystery Well. Theivy covered turret and balcony are reminiscent of European castles, while theoctagonal shape of the study lends to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello style. Thehouse was designed by prominent Washington architect Carl Keverstein in 1886.Frederick Morck was a local jeweler who purchased a lease in Cherry Groveknown as Mystery Well #646 in March of 1882. The well was so secret thatdrillers had to sign an agreement to reveal nothing of the progress. By May, thewell was gushing over 2,000 barrels daily, as oil men rushed to Cherry Grove;and Warren experienced a business boom.It was noted that it had taken 22 years, since the discovery of oil, to find30 wells producing over 1,000 barrels each day in Pennsylvania, and themajority had come from Warren County within a three-month period. During 1882-1883, in this township took place one of the greatestoil booms ever witnessed in Pennsylvania. William T. Falconer andFrederick Morck of Warren owned leases in the township and theysub-leased their lands to George Dimick and Captain Peter Grace whooperated as the Jamestown OilCompany. In the middle 1870’s Henry Landsrath, an experienced oil man, decided that somewhere in the region between Kane & Warren, rich oil-bearing territory should be found. At Balltown, Kane, and Sheffield, his trial wells proved dry. Next he decided to drill in Cherry Grove Township of Warren County. On map tract 668, six miles west of Sheffield and the same distance southwest of Clarendon, he drilled a well over 2000 feet deep and once more got only a dry well. Because of financial straits, Landsrath was unable to drill more. Landsrath sold his Cherry Grove leases to William T. Falconer of Warren who induced jeweler, Frederick Morck, to join him in the venture. Morck and Falconer subleased their land to George Dimick , who, with Captain Peter Grace, operated under the name of the Jamestown Oil Company. When Dimick encountered Henry Landsrath, he asked him where he would have drilled his next well had he continued and Landsrath replied “On the northwest corner of 646.” With that clue, a well commenced that was to amaze all of oildom. Early in March 1882 it was discovered that the new well was guarded, the derrick tightly boarded, the work halted, and armed guards posted to keep the curious away. The trade reasoned that the well was probably good but the owners were withholding the news, purposely stalling for time while they purchased and leased additional land in the vicinity. According to the well owner, “the 646 mystery” struck sand and made good show of oil on March 11, then was plugged tight until March 29 when the plug was drilled out and oil flowed stronger than before. Sufficient tankage was not available to handle such a flow and as the well was being carefully watched, the plug was again inserted. The public had been fooled but only temporarily. On May 17 the plugs were removed and the drill bit deeper, the following day the estimated flow was from 300 to 500 barrels and this climbed until on May 23 the gusher yielded over 2,000 barrels daily. When “646” was nearly finished, Michael Murphy of Philadelphia bought lot 619, northwest of the well, paying $100 per acre. Murphy rushed his well down only to meet disaster. On May 9, the rig caught fire and burned, but was rebuilt in a frenzy and on June 2 his No. 1 well started to throw 1,600 barrels of oil a day. Just a month later his No. 2 well began at the rate of 3,600 daily and this proved one of the best wells in the field. The “646” well, along with Murphy’s gusher, found in a region long believed to be nonproductive for crude oil, brought the oil pack rushing into the new field like hungry wolves. They came after land and leases and oil, and they brought with them teams and drilling equipment. The incoming horde knew but did not care that “646” had wrecked the oil market and had caused crude oil to finally reach its lowest price in twenty years. Two plank roads were used to enter this region and long wagon lines were common; some days 500 teams traveled the roads. For single teams the toll was twenty cents, for double teams thirty cents, and for heavier loads of boilers and casings, two dollars was charged.Warren experienced a business boom, too, something it was not used to having. Oil supply houses were quickly cleaned out while grocery and clothing stores did a thriving business; Morck’s jewelry store was termed “the 646 store” because the owner was one of the original Cherry Grove leaseholders. On many days 2,500 telegrams flooded the Western office and nine extra operators were employed to handle the rush. Warren is a city in and the county seat of Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Allegheny River.[4] The population was 9,404 at the 2020 census.[5] It is home to the headquarters of the Allegheny National Forest and the Cornplanter State Forest. It is also the headquarters for the Chief Cornplanter Council, the oldest continuously chartered Boy Scouts of America Council, and the catalog company Blair. Warren is the principal city of the Warren micropolitan area. History United Refining in WarrenWarren was initially inhabited by Native Americans of the Seneca nation. French explorers had longstanding claims to the area which they acted to secure in an unambiguous fashion with a military-Amerindian expedition in 1749 that buried a succession of plaques claiming the territory as France's in response to the formation of the colonial Ohio Company—and the first of these was buried in Warren[6] but ultimately control was transferred to the British after the French and Indian War. After the Revolutionary War, General William Irvine and Andrew Ellicott were sent to the area to lay out a town in 1795. It was named after Major General Joseph Warren.[7] The first permanent structure in Warren, a storehouse built by the Holland Land Company, was completed in 1796. Daniel McQuay of Ireland was the first permanent inhabitant of European descent. Lumber was the main industry from 1810–1840, as the abundance of wood and access to water made it profitable to float lumber down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh. David Beaty discovered oil in Warren in 1875 while drilling for natural gas in his wife's flower garden. Oil came to dominate the city's economy. Many of the town's large Victorian homes were built with revenue generated by the local oil and timber industries.[8] Pittsburgh-Des Moines, which was formerly located in Warren, manufactured the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.[9][10] Pittsburgh-Des Moines (PDM) also made railroad car tanks, storage tanks and other plate work. Several miniature replicas are located within the county, including one at the new visitors center on Routes US 6 and US 62[10] next to the Pennsylvania State Police barracks. Warren has struggled through hard economic times and a steady decline in population, which peaked at nearly 15,000 in 1940. The city is attempting to bounce back with the Impact Warren project, a riverfront development project in downtown Warren. The completed project will include new townhouses and senior citizen housing, retail and commercial development, a parking garage, convention center and bus depot.[citation needed] Major employers include Walmart, the United Refining Company (gas supplier for Kwik Fill and Red Apple Food Mart gas stations), Allegheny National Forest, Northwest Bank, Whirley-Drinkworks, Superior Tire and Rubber Corp, Pennsylvania General Energy, Betts Industries, Inc, Blair Corporation, Sheetz, and Interlectric. A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since a majority of watches are now factory-made, most modern watchmakers only repair watches. However, originally they were master craftsmen who built watches, including all their parts, by hand.[1][2] Modern watchmakers, when required to repair older watches, for which replacement parts may not be available, must have fabrication skills, and can typically manufacture replacements for many of the parts found in a watch. The term clockmaker refers to an equivalent occupation specializing in clocks. Most practising professional watchmakers service current or recent production watches. They seldom fabricate replacement parts. Instead they obtain and fit factory spare parts applicable to the watch brand being serviced. The majority of modern watchmakers, particularly in Switzerland and other countries in Europe, work directly for the watchmaking industry and may have completed a formal watchmaking degree at a technical school.[citation needed] They also receive in-house "brand" training at the factory or service center where they are employed. However, some factory service centers have an approach that allows them to use 'non-watchmakers' (called "opérateurs") who perform only one aspect of the repair process. These highly skilled workers do not have a watchmaking degree or certificate, but are specifically trained 'in-house' as technicians to service a small number of components of the watch in a true 'assembly-line' fashion, (e.g., one type of worker will dismantle the watch movement from the case, another will polish the case and bracelet, another will install the dial and hands, etc.). If genuine watchmakers are employed in such environments, they are usually employed to service the watch movement. Due to factory/genuine spare parts restrictions, an increasing minority of watchmakers in the US are 'independent,' meaning that they choose not to work directly for industry or at a factory service center. One major Swiss watch brand – Rolex – now pre-qualifies independent watchmakers before they provide them with spare parts. This qualification may include, but is not limited to, holding a modern training certificate from one of several reputable schools; having a workshop environment that meets Rolex's standards for cleanliness; using modern equipment; and being a member of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute. The Omega brand has the same approach. However, the vast majority of modern Swiss brands do not sell parts to independent watchmakers, irrespective of the watchmaker's expertise, training or credentials. This industry policy is thought to enable Swiss manufacturers to maintain tighter quality control of the after-sales service for its watch brands, produce high margins on after sales services (two to four times what an independent watchmaker would ask), and to reduce the availability of second-hand watchmaking parts on the used and fake market.[citation needed]

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