The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 1, January 4, 2004, Article 4

AN ENCASED POSTAGE PILGRIMAGE

The Fanning's Frossard visit reminds me of a similar excursion
I made at the time of the 1982 Boston ANA convention.
I met up with Bob Kincaid from Hastings, Nebraska. Bob
had been doing a lot of research on issuers of U.S. encased
postage stamps, which is a specialty of mine. Later the two
of us would join up with Fred Reed who pooled his own
extensive research with ours and published "Civil War Encased
Stamps: The Issuers and Their Times" in 1995.

Bob gave a talk about his research at the ANA's "Little Theater",
as it was called then. He had located information about the
inventor of encased postage stamps, John Gault, including his
obituary and will. His final resting place as it turned out, was in
Mount Auburn cemetery in nearby Cambridge, MA
(http://www.mountauburn.org/. We took my car out to
Cambridge and made our way to Gault's gravesite and took
some pictures. I believe we also got some more information
about the family from the cemetery office.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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