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 F. Buhl & Co., Hats and Furs, Detroit Mich., 12c Black
(EP42). Stamp with intense shade and impression, attractively placed so that denomination is clearly visible, case with lovely golden color, tiny mica crazing at top and bottom is barely noticeableVERY FINE AND CHOICE. THE 12-CENT F. BUHL
AND COMPANY ENCASED POSTAGE IS EXTREMELY RARE. VERY FEW ARE KNOWN. Frederick Buhl (1806-1890) was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, the second of eleven children. He went to Pittsburgh at the age of 16 to learn to be a jeweller, but health
problems forced him to change plans, and in 1833 he moved to Detroit. There, he formed a partnership with his brother, Christian, a trained hatter. The Buhls began selling hats, but soon branched out into furs, establishing a large and successful
company under the name of the F. & C. H. Buhl Co. Frederick was elected as Detroit's mayor in 1848. He and his brother remained in business together for 20 years, after which Christian retired from the trade and Frederick continued in business
independently under the name F. Buhl and Company. In 1887, Buhl sold the company to his son Walter, the business was eventually sold to Edwin S. George in 1898.
The Ford sale catalogue (Stack's 6/23/2004, lot 424) states "we have seen none in
any of the major public institutional collections of encasements and have only two auction records to point to in the past decade. Given the paucity of references to this denomination we suspect the actual number of survivors is smaller than five and
may be as few as three."
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