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Br 568, Weir & Larminie

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:900.00 CAD Estimated At:1,800.00 - 2,000.00 CAD
Br 568, Weir & Larminie
SOLD
3,500.00CAD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2014 May 30 @ 21:22UTC-4 : AST/EDT
The Cataloguers have taken every reasonable measure to ensure that all the lots are as described by Geoffrey Bell Auctions. Many of the lots are third party graded by PCGS, PMG, ICCS - We feel these are the most recognized grading companies in the industry.
Br 568, Weir & Larminie - CH MT-7, Robert Weir’s and William Larminie’s encased 10 cent U.S. postage stamp. These Montreal exchange brokers were the only Canadians to follow the practice adopted during the Civil War of creating small change by encasing stamps of different values in a brass frame with a mica window. The process was created and patented by John Gault of Boston, Mass., whose name and the patent date, Aug. 12, 1862, appear around below on the reverse. There is nothing else quite like this in Canadian numismatics. This example is a good VF, with the mica intact, if lightly scratched, to protect the green Washington portrait stamp. Ex: Jeffrey Hoare Sale, June 1992, lot 1039.
This lot is part of the extensive George H. Thomson Collection.