Item #53059 That new metallic currency Civil War encased stamps: their issuers and their times. Comprising a history, merchant chronicle catalog, auction summary and counterfeit guide to John Gault's patent mineral and metal store card emergency money of 1862. Fred L. Reed, III.
That new metallic currency Civil War encased stamps: their issuers and their times. Comprising a history, merchant chronicle catalog, auction summary and counterfeit guide to John Gault's patent mineral and metal store card emergency money of 1862

That new metallic currency Civil War encased stamps: their issuers and their times. Comprising a history, merchant chronicle catalog, auction summary and counterfeit guide to John Gault's patent mineral and metal store card emergency money of 1862

Port Clinton, OH: BNR Press, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 5-551, [7]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. With little small coinage in circulation, Congress passed legislation to monetize postage stamps - a miserable failure until Gault's invention of small brass cases to house the stamps. Item #53059

Price: $75.00

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