That New Metallic Currency Civil War Encased Stamps Their Issuers And Their Times Comprising A

by Fred L Reed Iii

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Port Clinton, OH: BNR Press, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 5-551, 7 ; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. With little small coinage in circulation, Congress passed legislation to monetize postage stamps - a miserable failure until Gault's invention of small brass cases to house the stamps. Item #53059

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