Meaning of brownback | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
2. A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.
3. A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.

Examples

“In the fall⟳ and winter I shot in the lagoons and in the harbor of Greytown blue-wing and green-wing teal and gadwalls; also sickle-bill curlews, peeps or least sandpipers, and brownbacks or grass birds.”

“Two "brownbacks," as they are known on Cape Cod where these came from, are shown in Figure⟳ 36. The one whose head is held forward⟳ represents the male in fall⟳ plumage — the back slate gray and the breast a cinnamon pink.”

“The color work⟳ on the postage stamps will not be new to the bureau. In addition to the work⟳ which it has done on proprietary stamps, it has mixed and used every shade of color in its other work⟳. Brown was used on the “brownbacks,” green on the "greenbacks;" different blues on customs stamps and on the backs of bonds.”

“Of course the printers are not all doing the same kind of work⟳: some are printing the greenbacks, some the brownbacks, some the faces, and others the backs and faces, of the revenue stamps.”

“There are greenbacks for one department of the tithing-house, brownbacks for another, and so on. By using this scrip the Church is able to create⟳ a market for considerable quantities of the tithing.”

“These notes were printed on paper the reverse of which was of a brown color, and very soon after their appearance they were nicknamed the brownbacks, and continued to bear⟳ this name⟳ during the whole time they were in circulation.”

“A notable instance of this character was the issue⟳ by the city in 1873 of the "Brownbacks,” so called, as circulating notes, which were not regarded as a violation of this provision of the charter, and which were retired by the proceeds of a special tax levied and collected for that purpose after the present⟳ charter came in force⟳.”

“The brownbacks come⟳ into circulation by creating a debt and involving double⟳ interest⟳.”

“In the emergency of a shortage of cash the city resorted to a temporary issue⟳ of scrip called "brownbacks."”

“In order⟳ to prevent⟳ consumers from supplementing their current cash allowance out of cash hoards, it would be necessary either to stamp⟳ all dollar bills when the scheme is put⟳ into operation or to change⟳ them completely; e.g., by printing "brownbacks" instead of "greenbacks."”

“At least two banknotes of the First national Bank of Albion are known to exist⟳ today. Both are $10 brownbacks.”

“Come⟳ tomorrow morning you say⟳ we are going to have⟳ pinkbacks or brownbacks and make⟳ everybody turn⟳ their currency in to the Federal Government.”

“As is known, there are two opinions among financial experts and economists:.one holds that without administrative interference in the regulations governing hard currency circulation, which by itself is harmful for the social economy, one cannot achieve⟳ financial stabilization; the other, on the opposite, is against any administrative restrictions, and advocates a natural stabilization of the money supply⟳, as a result⟳ of which all "greenbacks," "graybacks," and "brownbacks" will disappear⟳ from circulation on their own⟳.”

“Among the large collection of historic criminal daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes on display was that of Louis Degurie, who was one of the first to use⟳ photography to make⟳ counterfeit "brownbacks," in 1862.”

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