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Sale 55: United States Postal History

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Westward Expansion - Mormon Related

Lot 110    

[Mormon] Liberty Mo., May 9., complete strike of oval postmark in magenta and manuscript "25" rating on three-page folded letter datelined "Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, May the 4th 1834" and addressed to Urbana Oh., some very interesting Mormon related content, Very Fine.
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.

THE EARLIEST RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE LIBERTY FANCY TOWN OVAL POSTMARK, AND ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED STRIKES IN MAGENTA.

The interesting Mormon letter content reads in part, "There is a degraded kind of people in this country called mormons that settled in an adjacent county who pretended to have great supernatural gifts such as speaking with tongues healing diseases etc. The people of that county became so disgusted with them and their lying pretentions that last winter they drove them from their county. They are a great many of them scattered about this county but they are preparing to go back to their homes again by force of arms and I make if they do there will be much blood shed for the people of that county are determined not to let them come back…".

Realized: $4,000

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