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Postal Currency Envelope for 3¢ Notes (Washington, DC- Fisk Mills) ND (1869) PMG Encapsulated No Grade.. ...
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One of Three Known to Milt Friedberg
Postal Currency Envelope for 3¢ Notes (Washington, DC- Fisk
Mills) ND (1869) PMG Encapsulated No Grade.This example was previously lot 456 when we auctioned the Milton R. Friedberg Collection on January 10, 1997. This is an excessively rare item of great interest to Fractional collectors. The story of this envelope is best told in a short article written by Milt that can be found at www.spmc,org - "Postal Currency Envelope" in Paper Money, Society of Paper Money Collectors, January/February 1980, Vol. XIX, No. 1, Whole No. 85, page 29. The example in this lot is plated with the article. In short, Milt ran across the description of this item in a postal history reference book. It is a postal envelope used to preserve stamps while they are being used as small change. This is a post-Civil War example and U.S. Patent 91,473 was issued to Fisk Mills of Washington, D.C. for a "Postal Currency" envelope on June 15, 1869. A limited quantity of orange (red to this cataloger's eyes) on buff paper examples were prepared. Milt was aware of three examples of the version in this lot surviving when the article was written in 1980. Three other different versions were also known to Milt and he believed that they were the original "working samples" supplied to the U.S. Patent Office with the patent application as was required by the patent law of the period. These samples were later sold by the Patent Office in a house cleaning procedure. An additional variation was known to Milt with an eagle facing left.
When we auctioned Milt's collection in 1997 and before the piece in this lot was third party encapsulated, we described the envelope in this lot as having a short split where the flap meets the envelope. Nonetheless, this item remains rare. As being a post-Civil War example, it was not included in Fred Reed's, Civil War Stamp Envelopes The Issuers & Their Times.
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2025 January 14 - 17 FUN US Currency Signature® Auction #3597 (go to Auction Home page)
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January, 2025
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