Encased Postage Stamps

Does anyone here have some to post.
These are a cool factor of 8!!
And I would love hearing about some of them.

 

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Those have been on my mental want list for years, but they're expensive for my tastes. I do see them at shows from time to time.

One of these days I'll buy one!

 

Did I miss something? What stamps are you talking about?

Chris

 

Encased ones.
THey are like a coin and with a stamp stuck in it.

Used during the civil war because people were hoarding the metal coins.

 

Early American usually have these in the auction catalogs they send me. In case folks have access, pricing and other neat info is usually included in those too.

As SE says, such specimens usually quite costly.

 

Here's a site selling some.

 

There is a small section in the back of The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Paper Money, 2nd Edition. About 8 pages worth of examples.

 

I read an article about how some people were making fakes of these, does NGC grade these as they make all those different size holders?

 

Is there a link to the article or what publication was it in?

 

I saw an image of a PCGS encapsulated roll the other day someone had posted. I'm sure that they've already figured out a way to get these into a slab.

 

I have a couple of the common ones, but don't have them handy to take pics.

Who is John Gault?

 

Haha!

 

CheetahCats, just curious, did you pick up on both references that I made with that question? To be honest, I didn't really expect anyone to catch them and it was more of just an inside joke of which I thought I would be the only knowing party.

 

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I picked up on the "Who is John Gault?" reference.

I think there are a lot of sharp folks on this board who could have possibly picked up on it

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John of Gault Duke of Lancashire England born 3/25/1345 died 9/30/1369, Son of Edward III, Father of Henry IV. Brother of Richard II. Portrayed on many Conder tokens of Lancashire, and one each of Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Warwickshire, and Yorkshire.

Also a character from Atlas Shrugged.

 

I'm still not sure if anyone picked up on both of the references that I intended. I figured that some members would pick up on the John Galt reference related to Atlas Shrugged (I'm reading that now, nearing the end, up to page 1088).

The other reference related to the OP of this thread. I intentionally misspelled the name in the question as a clue :rolling:. John Gault was the inventor and patent holder for encased postage stamps. His name can be found on the reverse side of the case holding the stamp. He also held patents for military warfare items, and was a somewhat obscure inventor. I was just thinking not many others would have known off the top of their heads the name of the man who came up with the idea for encased postage.

 

There was one recently featured on Pawn Stars a few weeks back. They were only produced for a short time at the beginning of the Civil War due to the unavailability of postage stamps.

 

Is the character in Atlas Shrugged spelled Galt? I took the Gault reference to the creater of the encased postage as an assumed and thought you were looking for a second one. Now if you had asked who was John Galt then I would have said The Scarlet Pimpernel.

 

John Galt from Atlas Shrugged.

 

Was trying to find an article on the manufacturing of the encased Postage stamps and came upon this thread, I have one that made it down through a few generations of my family.