Encased Postage Stamp: A stamp inserted into a small coin-size case with a transparent front or back. Such stamps were circulated as legal coins during periods when coins were scarce.
Encased Postage Stamp - A stamp inserted into a small, transparent, coin-size case originally used as legal coins during coin shortages.
Enraving - See "Intaglio." ...
Encased postage stamp - a postage stamp, first used during the American Civil War, encased within a protective covering that was used as a coin during periods of metal shortages ...
Encased Postage Stamps. Stamps set into small metal disks with mica facing and used as currency.
Engine Turning. A pattern of fine curved lines in a stamp design produced by a machine known as a Rose Engine.
Feuchtwanger Strip: Civil War era encased postage stamps, but may be a fantasy item created in the 1890's.
The Standard Catalogue of Encased Postage Stamps,
by Hodder and Bowers; Bowers and Merena Galleries, 1989 ...
the mail, including on postal stationery and on privately produced envelopes and postcards. The American Civil War gave rise to other forms of advertising related to the stamp hobby: private-die proprietary revenue stamps and encased postage stamps.
 See also: Encased, Used, Stamp, Machin, Cover
  
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