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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 2398597, member: 22729&quot;]A nice old counterstamp, C-B-D. I don&#039;t know if you have any history on your piece or not, but just in case you don&#039;t...</p><p><br /></p><p>Brunk lists both &quot;H.G. Buell&quot; and &quot;H.H. Buell&quot;. Only &quot;H.H.&quot; is attributed, but his stamp looks very much like the &quot;H.G&quot; stamp on your coin. I thought immediately that they might be related. They were.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked into both men and found that the research Brunk used (not his) was partly incorrect. Your counterstamp was issued by a jeweler in Courtland, NY named Harlow G. Buell. Buell&#039;s son was Horace Henry (H.H.) Buell who was a clock maker later in life. Both stamps are typical styles and sizes for jewelers and clock makers, so I&#039;m confident that these attributions are correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>H.G. was born in 1816 and married Caroline M. Sanford in 1836. I believe he died in the 1860s. H.H. was born in 1845 and passed away in Port Richmond, NY in 1891, only 46 years old. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your counterstamp is denoted B-1278 by Brunk who only lists one example...on an 1808 Half Dollar. Yours is the second example then. Congrats on a great coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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