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The Dr. William A. Litle Collection of United States Encased Postage continued...

Aerated Bread Company
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
205   ImageAerated Bread Co., New York N.Y., 5c Red Brown (EP1A). Stamp has deep rich color, case has attractive olive gold color with small area of slight discoloration on back at bottom, intact mica with minor lamination visible only under angled light

VERY FINE. THE UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT AERATED BREAD ENCASED POSTAGE ISSUE. ONE OF THE GREATEST RARITIES OF ENCASED POSTAGE COLLECTING.

The Aerated Bread Co., operated by Stephen F. Ambler, was located on the corner of Lafayette Place and 4th Street in New York City. The bakery made "aerated" bread, which was proclaimed to have health benefits, but the firm closed in less than two years. A notice published in the New York Times, November 8, 1863, reads:

PURE AERATED GRAHAM BREAD. -- We have been shown specimens of this new and excellent article of food, manufactured by the Aerated Bread Company, corner of Lafayette-place and Fourth-street. It far surpasses anything of the kind yet introduced. With their increased facilities for making bread, the Aerated Bread Company hope soon to introduce to the trade all the varieties necessary for household consumption.

Gault produced two denominations of encased postage with the firm’s advertising legend. Approximately 11-15 are known of the 1c value, and this 5c encasement is the only recorded example in all of the published census data. It first appeared at auction in the December 1968 Herst sale, in which four experimental or trial pieces (including lot 203 in this sale) were offered on behalf of the same consignor, said to be someone from Boston who had been associated with the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury. Considering the 5c encasement's reported provenance, uncirculated condition and extreme rarity, it is possible that this denomination was never put into circulation.

Ex Herst sale (Dec. 3, 1968), Ford and Mayer (Image)

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15,000.00

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