1862 Dougan the Hatter. Three Cents

1862 Dougan the Hatter. Three Cents. HB-97, EP-41, S-67. Extremely Fine.

Trow's New York City Directory for 1865 provides the following: "Dougan John A. hats,102 Nassau, h. 113 Macdougal." Dougan was affiliated with New York 12th Regiment, Infantry,and during the Civil War is said to have been active in helping to recruit and equip soldiers inthe regiment at his own personal cost. Mr. Dougan, with business premises in New York City, was oneof three of John Gault's customers engaged in the hat trade; the other two were F. Buhl &Company in Detroit and White, who was also located in New York City. Dougan's encasements arethe only ones in the series to bear an illustration of the product advertised -- a top hat.

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1862 Lord & Taylor. Three Cents

1862 Lord & Taylor. Three Cents. HB-169, EP-51, S-122. Extremely Fine.

By 1862, when the firm commissioned their encasements from Gault, Lord & Taylor was a leaderin fashions and had three business locations. The first was at 255-261 Grand Street; a second waslocated slightly north, at 47-49 Catherine Street; while the flagship store was at 461-467Broadway, then New York's most fashionable thoroughfare. Headquarters was described at the timeas "more like an Italian palace than a place for the sale of broadcloth." This buildingwas attacked during New York's draft riots of 1863, but was successfully defended from the mobby the store's own clerks (the police deliberately avoided the riot scene, partly out ofsympathy with the rioters). Today in 2014 the firm remains famous, the only issuer of encasedpostage stamps for which this can be said.

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1862 N. & G. Taylor & Co. Three Cents

1862 N. & G. Taylor & Co. Three Cents. HB-226, EP-57, S-170. Extremely Fine.

The following is from the 1863 edition of the McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory:"Taylor N. & G. & Co. (G.E. & W.Y. Taylor, & Augustus R. Hall), tin plate,metals, & c., 303 Branch." This firm also issued many Civil War tokens in a number of dievarieties.

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