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The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 19, May 7, 2017, Article 22

MORE ON THE G. ERICHSON COUNTERSTAMP

Bob Merchant submitted these notes and images on the Gustave Erichson counterstamp discussed last week. Thanks! -Editor

I enjoyed reading Bill Groom's article on the "G. ERICHSON" counterstamps. Here is some additional information and two pictures from my counterstamp research file.

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Gustave Erichson was a Texas gunsmith who worked in the greater Houston area, circa 1838 to 1872 [retirement], and died in 1874. He used several different marks on his guns. I have an image of a gun barrel [from an antique gun auction] that was stamped with the same punches as the coin. The periods/dots in the gun mark were impressed with a separate dot punch. One of the dots is also boldly stamped on the coin [an 1858-O Seated Liberty Half Dollar]. The coin is from the 2010 Stack's sale of the Tony Terranova collection of countermarked silver coins.

During Erichson’s career as a gunsmith [c.1838-1872], Texas was under four flags: the Republic of Texas [c.1838-1845], the State of Texas [1845-1861], the Confederate State of Texas [1861-1870], and finally the State of Texas again [1870-1872].

Erichson, G. 1854-O ob 50c g-erichson-houston-texas
Left: Bill Groom's example; Right: Bob Merchant's

To read the complete article, see:
THE G. ERICHSON COUNTERSTAMP (www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n18a26.html)

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