BERRIGAN HARRISBURG DEFENSE FUND RAISER STAMPS FOLDER AND DANBURY PRISON RALLY POSTER.
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$126.50 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:00:00 AM)
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Auction:
Auction #205 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1426 in auction 205
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Item Description
First is 5x7" stiff paper folder printed with front cover plea "Justice Cannot Be Purchased, But In Today's Circumstances It Is Not Free. Please Help." Cover also requests contributions to be sent to Harrisburg Defense Committee based in New York City with address. Inside front cover is blank facing page of sixteen perforated but unused and unbroken stamps for letter seals. The stamps picture two different images alternating positions to each other. One image is prison photo of Catholic priest Daniel Berrigan, noted for anti-war protests including burning draft records in Catonville, MD. See item #161. Alternate image is his hand bound by handcuffs with one hand in peace gesture. Tiny caption beneath each of the hand view is "We Have Chosen To Say, With The Gift Of Our Liberty, If Necessary Our Lives: The Violence Stops Here, The Death Stops Here, The Suppression Of The Truth Stops Here, This War Stops Here." Back cover is gummed surface for application of stamps to correspondence covers or similar. Cover fold has 1.5" split of perforations, rest is Mint. The poster from 1971 is 11x17" stiff paper titled "Babies For Peace." It was issued, like the folder, by "Harrisburg Defense Committee." Father Philip Berrigan and others had been indicted on federal charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up heating systems of D.C. federal buildings. The group became known as The Harrisburg Eight. Both Berrigans were already in Danbury prison for anti-war protests. The poster is essentially Mint.
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