[ATTACH][ATTACH] I picked up this counterstamp at the ANA show in Philly on Thursday. I found it at Ernie Latter's table in his box of Hard Times...
Definitely late in the life of that die Joseph. I personally like tokens and coins that show extreme die deterioration like this one. Very nice...
I'm going to the show today with another collector from my coin club. Right now I'm getting all fired up on coffee so I can run the table. Maybe...
Brown also issued a 10 cent and 25 cent token. All denominations are R-9 except the 50 cent issue which is an R-8 rarity. The reference on sutler...
The only Civil War tokens made for military units (sutler tokens) were privately minted and issued by sutlers (merchants) who traveled with the...
So Siggi, she said "NO" before you could even ask...yeah, I get that too. BTW, it has nothing to do with science, women are programmed to say no....
It might be an abbreviation for "patented" as in Patented, April..... 1861(?) I've seen some strange ways to indicate a patent date, and I think...
That's exactly what I do Joseph. I bid my max and see what happens. So far I've been pretty successful doing it that way. Bruce
That's a nice one Joseph. I've always wanted a few examples of encased postage but just never bought one. I hadn't thought about them in sometime...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] Here's two more counterstamps...on modern coins. These were issued by the Western Reserve Numismatic Club of Cleveland, Ohio to...
The coin's copper Derick. I forget the size and weight of it off hand, but it's about the size of a U.S. Large Cent. The man I bought it from is a...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] Here's one of my most recent pickups Derick. Can't tell what coin it's struck on but looks early U.S. colonial. This one's from...
Thanks Siggi, sounds good. BTW, have you been in contact with Mark anytime recently? I haven't been able to contact him and he hasn't posted here...
Welcome to C/T Max. Can you post a better picture showing more detail of your token? I really can't make out too much with these pictures. Thanks....
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] I generally don't buy counterstamps in this condition, but did this time because of the importance of the issuer. The...
Holy moly moly holy batman cave ins? Geez Siggi you're really fired up...for good reason. Beautiful coin! Congrats. Bruce
Hi Siggi, good to hear from you again. You always have a lot of interesting things to share with us so when we don't hear from you for awhile we...
Nice set of tokens Collect. I especially like the daredevil piece. Bruce
Love those CWTs brg. Have you ever bought any from Steve Hayden? He always has some outstanding pieces to auction off on his site. I don't collect...
The Celluoid Starch Co. was founded in 1886 by S.H. Read to market a new type of starch. Later, they had offices in New York City as well as in...
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