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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 1240366, member: 8033&quot;]I recently acquired an interesting piece of history at work. A 3 Cent encased postage stamp.</p><p>Not something you see often. Actually my boss has been in business 45 years now and has owned 1 or 2.</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine his surprise when we bought an estate stamp collection and there were FIVE pieces in the lot. I HAD to have one.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me it crosses&nbsp; paper money, stamps and exonumia. Paper money because it was the precursor of fractionals, stamps because it involves a stamp and exonumia due to the the store card aspect.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned these are seldom seen. It was certainly not in my budget but I had to act fast. Hopefully the first and last time I drop a few hundred bucks on a stamp as I am not a stamp collecor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the item in question.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x275/clembo1872/cointalk/forums/encasedo.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x275/clembo1872/cointalk/forums/encasedo.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x275/clembo1872/cointalk/forums/encasedo.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x275/clembo1872/cointalk/forums/encasedr.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x275/clembo1872/cointalk/forums/encasedr.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x275/clembo1872/cointalk/forums/encasedr.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s more information on ecased stamps.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&amp;cmd=1&amp;tid=2036357" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&amp;cmd=1&amp;tid=2036357" rel="nofollow">http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&amp;cmd=1&amp;tid=2036357</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone else has one or more I&#039;d love to see them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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