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The Nauvoo Mormon Temple

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:175.00 USD Estimated At:350.00 - 500.00 USD
The Nauvoo Mormon Temple
<Our item number 129357><B>The Nauvoo Mormon Temple.</B> Photograph of the temple, by Benedict & Co., Chicago, printed by Baumert Brothers, &#34;publishers of The Nauvoo Independent,&#34; Nauvoo, Illinois &#34;8&#34; x 5¼&#34;. Very good; light toning and minor dampstaining in borders. Information about the temple is in the lower border: &#34;The Temple was built of light gray limestone; it was 128 ft. long, 88 ft. high and to the top of the tower 200 ft. It had 30 hewn pilasters, which cost &#36;3,000 each. The whole cost of the building was &#36;1,000,000. The baptismal fount, supported on 12 carved oxen, was in the basement story, and with the oxen was intended to be gilded. Corner stone laid, April 6, 1841. Burned October 8-9, 1848. Joseph Smith killed at Carthage, June 27, 1844.&#34; <BR>Estimated Value &#36;350 - 500. <BR><BR>Our item number 129357<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/45jpegs/129357.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>