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CIVIL WAR TOKEN SCRIP MATES
A long-running series in The Civil War Token Journal concerns "Scrip Mates", pairings of tokens and paper/cardboard
scrip, shellcards and the like issued by the same merchants during the U.S. Civil War. Begun by the late Sterling Rachootin, it is being
continued by David Gladfelter and edited by Susan Trask.
A few items in the Summer 2016 installment caught my eye. It covers merchants in New York state. Many thanks to Susan and David for these images. The token images were not in the article, but are instead taken from the club's update of the Fuld Civil War Token Store Cards book. -Editor Eastman National Business College, Poughkeepsie, NY
 
This one caught my eye because of the actual U.S. postage stamp. I'd never seen this one illustrated before the John J. Ford
collection sales. This example is from Ford Part 10 (May 26, 2005), lot 4249. -Editor
David Gladfelter writes: The Schingoethe catalog lists two varieties of the 1 cent note, one with a blank frame and one with a female allegory in the frame. It isn't listed with a stamp in the frame. A. M. Johnson, Buffalo, NY
Robinson &Ballou, Troy, NY
Here the pairing is with cardboard scrip notes, among the rarest of all Civil War numismatic items. -Editor
D. L. Wing, Albany, NY
 
I met Sterling Rachootin at an ANA convention back in the 1980s and thanked him for his article series. I was already a collector of U.S.
Civil War scrip and Pittsburgh Civil War tokens and hadn't begun making these connections. While I never found Scrip Mates from a
Pittsburgh issuer, I did collect several pairings including D. L. Wing, whose scrip notes are fairly common. -Editor
White the Hatter, New York City
 
White the Hatter Civil War token  
White the Hatter encased Postage stamp  
White, Whitman &Co. Shell card
The token image is from the tokencatalog.com, courtesy Steve Hayden. I had a White the Hatter in my encased postage stamp collection. In
this case the pairing is with a shell card from a later period.
"Scrip mates" are a challenge for the true numismatist - you have to be a generalist with interest in multiple fields to make these connections and bring the material together, be it for a collection, an exhibit or article. Looking at the tokens alone does not give the full picture of the issuer's activities and business - the group is worth more than the sum of its parts to a researcher. -Editor For information about the Civil War Token Society, send email to the Secretary, John Ostendorf, at johnoste@yahoo.com or write to him at 523 Hiwasee Rd., Waxahachie, TX. 75165. He will send you a brochure and on request, a sample journal issue. 
Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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