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ENCASED POSTAGE STAMPS IN THE STACK'S BOWERS 2014 BALTIMORE SALEYet another Stack's Bowers catalog arrived in the mail last weekend. As a
former collector of U.S. Encased Postage Stamps, I thought I'd showcase a few of them.
-Editor
1862 Dougan the Hatter. Three Cents
  Trow's New York City Directory for 1865 provides the following: "Dougan John A. hats, 102 Nassau, h. 113 Macdougal." Dougan was affiliated with New York 12th Regiment, Infantry, and during the Civil War is said to have been active in helping to recruit and equip soldiers in the regiment at his own personal cost. Mr. Dougan, with business premises in New York City, was one of three of John Gault's customers engaged in the hat trade; the other two were F. Buhl & Company in Detroit and White, who was also located in New York City. Dougan's encasements are the only ones in the series to bear an illustration of the product advertised -- a top hat. To read the complete lot description, see:
1862 Lord & Taylor. Three Cents
  By 1862, when the firm commissioned their encasements from Gault, Lord & Taylor was a leader in fashions and had three business locations. The first was at 255-261 Grand Street; a second was located slightly north, at 47-49 Catherine Street; while the flagship store was at 461-467 Broadway, then New York's most fashionable thoroughfare. Headquarters was described at the time as "more like an Italian palace than a place for the sale of broadcloth." This building was attacked during New York's draft riots of 1863, but was successfully defended from the mob by the store's own clerks (the police deliberately avoided the riot scene, partly out of sympathy with the rioters). Today in 2014 the firm remains famous, the only issuer of encased postage stamps for which this can be said. To read the complete lot description, see:
1862 N. & G. Taylor & Co. Three Cents
 The following is from the 1863 edition of the McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory: "Taylor N. & G. & Co. (G.E. & W.Y. Taylor, & Augustus R. Hall), tin plate, metals, & c., 303 Branch." This firm also issued many Civil War tokens in a number of die varieties. To read the complete lot description, see:
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