Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln

Blue silk campaign ribbon, featuring a portrait of Lincoln at center, with "Union Club / of the / Lancaster Locomotive Works." above, and "Lincoln and Johnson." below. Top edge lightly frayed; horizontal creasing; soiling to upper right edge and right side of bottom edge. 7 x 2 1/2 in. (177 x 63.5 mm).

Lancaster Locomotive Works was a relatively short-lived company, that produced locomotive engines, from 1853 until 1857. In late 1863, however, brothers James and Edward Norris of Norris Locomotive Works moved production from Philadelphia to Lancaster, meaning that the name might have lived on through that venture.  

While no other examples of this particular ribbon can be located, a similar blue-colored ribbon promoting the opposing ticket of McClellan-Pendleton, and designating allegiance to the "Lancaster Locomotive Works Democratic Club" appeared at auction in 2015 (Heritage). Not in Sullivan and Fischer.

Provenance:

Louise Taper, Beverly Hills, California