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Pillar of the Community
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Those are terrific examples of encased postage!
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Thanks CheetahCats. They are the only two I have.
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This token represents 50% of an entire set of CWT's from Parma, MI. LOL. The other one is the identical design just minted in copper while this one is brass.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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As always -- beautiful specimens Bill!
The surface has a beautiful dazzle.
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Thanks CC. btw, I'll be in touch re: Baltimore in a couple of weeks.
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This is the only chit that I own and one of 5 things I bought at a heritage auction. Sorry it took me so long to post but it resided in my safety deposit box.  |
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This is the only chit that I own and one of 5 things I bought at a heritage auction. Cardboard scrip from the Civil War is quite infrequently found. Great acquisition :) Edited by CheetahCats
03/07/2012 3:39 pm
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You bet it is hard to find. I was planning on buying a few nice coins then I saw the chit and I had to have it. As far as I, Heritage,and PGC, know it is the only one in existance and what is written on it is all we know about it.
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Rest in Peace
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worldnumis-
Yours are not CWT, but encased postage stamps. There are prolly some pix on the stamp forum.
Nice examples.
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Biggfredd. I beg to differ on your definition of a token. Gault produced these as a trade tokens to replace regular postage stamps that were being used as small change, which got pretty messy, during the Civil War. They can even be considered paper money. They were also listed In Friedberg's early paper money catalogues.
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I concur with worldnumis. Postal stamps were indeed used as substitutes during the Civil War.
And John Gault patented his idea of using his encasement device on August 12, 1862. His patent detailed the use of button making equipment to manufacture a postage stamp case. And IMO, his cases could indeed be plausibly considered 'tokens.'
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03/11/2012 6:12 pm
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Fred - There's no argument that they are indeed called Encased Postage. I consider encased postage a form of "tokens."
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I feel the same way as CheetahCats. We are geting into senantics. I am not that much of a purist. Let's stick to the topic and maybe biggfredd can show some of his Civil War tokens.
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Haven's posted a CWT pic in a while, here is one in Brass. William Jackson, was a grocer in Jackson MI., and a bit of an excentric about town. Always looking for a revenue opportunity he issued 22 different tokens from his grocery business.  |
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