Lot
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Fiddletown, Cal. (El Dorado). Manuscript postmark (Williams ELD-1240) on buff cover to Illinois with matching "10" manuscript rate, original enclosure datelined "Cayote Ville, California 17th March 1853" with interesting miner's contents, " I have not struck any Big Pile since I have been in the Land of Gold, though I have made small wages all the time and have taken care of it. I don't Folle(?) it away like most of the Boys on the creek here with the Squaws or China Women. There is not a young man hardly on the creek, but what has got the clap or poxs. Its but the devil. I like the country very much, it is very healthy and beautiful climate. The worst fault that I can find to it is the damn Spaniards and Chinamen, their getting too thick. A man darst (dare not) to be seen with the any money for fear of being murdered and robbed. The Spaniards, some of them will kill a man for five dollars or less…I live about five miles from Fiddletown.", some cover edge wear & small tears, Very Fine, a rare example of a Fiddletown postmark, before being transferred into Amador County from El Dorado County by boundary change. Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $550