Encased Stamp GERMANY Frankfurt. Shoe Polish UNC BOSCO

You are bidding on ONE PIECE, the brass-finish piece in the middle. The other two are on eBay-France and eBay-Germany. The GREEN piece is rare.

Frankfurt. Merz Shoe Polish. Embossed metal type. Brass-plated.  About 33mm, issued 1919-20. Stamp: 10-Pfennig (Germania type). UNC, slight tarnish, and a tiny spot near bottom. The cellophane covering the stamp is torn, lower right. This is a very common issue, worth about $30; any bid over $40 is throwing away money. (I think I did sell a gem once, on eBay, for $50-ish).

Please check the bottom of this page for direct links to my other Encased Postage --about two dozen, from Austria,  France, and Germany on eBay this week.  I expect to list 200-250 pieces this year, from many countries including USA, so if you are interested, please make me a “Favorite Seller”. If you have previously bought Encased Postage from me, you should be receiving eMail notices from me, with direct links to the listings.

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Some pieces may be on foreign eBay sites. The links will bring you directly to these sites. Your USA registration works on the foreign sites and PayPal works the same. Ask for an invoice with combined postage. You will barely realize you are bidding on an overseas site.

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Postage is $2.58 insured in the USA, $13 (Air-Registered) overseas. Will combine shipping. An additional piece usually costs you NOTHING extra  in postage, even on overseas packages. Items may be examined and may be picked up BY APPOINTMENT in my street-level Manhattan store. (You can see the Empire State Building from my doorstep: Paul J. Bosco, 149 Madison Ave at E32nd St., New York, NY 10016; 212/758-2646; pauljbosco@covad.net.

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