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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1668183, member: 22729&quot;][ATTACH]247641.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]247642.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]247643.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Three nice gunsmith counterstamps from Balto. Gunsmith stamps always command a premium and these are no exception. Though none are well known and the DeWitt token has been harshly cleaned I still paid decent money for them.</p><p>Not much is known about the three men with the exception of Marshall Tidd who practiced in Woburn, MA between 1846 and 1868. He actually had two shops in both Woburn and N. Woburn. He was a prolific manufacturer during the Civil War and supplied weapons to many companies of sharpshooters.</p><p>E.M. Glynn was in business from 1871 until 1875 in Clarendon, VT. Examples of his counterstamps are rare, less than half a dozen being documented. I was lucky to come across this at Ernie Latter&#039;s table and pick it up at a very good price.</p><p>William P. DeWitt was in business at 418 Water St. in Elmira, NY from 1848 until 1891. DeWitt counterstamped a wide variety of coins including U.S. copper and silver coins as well as&nbsp; Spanish 2-reales and even a couple of Canadian tokens. His tokens are more common than the other two.</p><p>BTW, the DeWitt and Tidd examples are both from Dave Bower&#039;s collection. I have no provenance on the Glynn stamp.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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