 'Feuchtwanger' 9-Cent Encased Strip, n.d. EP 94a, Reed FE09. 54 x 25.8mm Copper Frame encloses three 3-Cent red Washington stamps wrapped in mica. Stamps are bright, mica is free of crazing. About Uncirculated. This frame is embossed with a floral pattern around a defiant eagle on snake obviously patterned after Dr. Lewis Feuchtwanger's 1-Cent Hard Times Tokens (Low 120). The maker and date of manufacture are unknown, but John F. Jones recalled in The Numismatist in 1909 that influential dealer Ed. Frossard cautioned him about 1898: ''Beware of the 9 cent, I know the man who is making them now - only a block away from here,'' Frossard's office on East 14th Street in New York City. However that may be, these enigmatic 9-Cent strips have long fascinated collectors of Encased Postage.
Ex New Netherlands Coin Co., New York.
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