(1863) Copper Civil War Store Card F-100A-1a, R.S. Torrey, Bangor ME
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Fuld ME-100A-1a is die pair 1 of R.S. Torrey of Bangor, Maine, struck in copper (a) and carrying 1863; PCGS calls the edge plain. Bangor is town 100 in Fuld, with A for Torrey. In a dealer's reading of a copper example, the die gives "E. S. Torrey Inventor of the Maine State Bee Hive" with Bangor, Maine, "Union" and 1863, and the dealer calls this the Childs version of the merchant's cards. Bangor stands at the head of navigation on the Penobscot River.
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Fuld 100A-1a
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