1 Cent Encased Postage Stamp, United States, 1862
date: label: date made
content: 1862-08-12
notes: label: Description
content: All told, thirty-one merchants would use the advertisement space on the back of Gault’s encased postage stamp device to promote their products. The company that used this form of advertisement most was J.C. Ayer & Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts. This example advertises Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Civil War
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Herman K. Crofoot Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.71.306.3
label: accession number
content: 207949
label: catalog number
content: 71.306.3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: encased postage stamp
label: Object Name
content: token
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mahagony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 mm; 29/32 in