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Lot 946
Sale 1096 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Nov 11, 2022
Lots Close
Nov 21, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
400
Price Realized
$344
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Lot Description
[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)]. A group of 4 CDVs of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, comprising:
CDV of Abraham Lincoln, marking Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Uncredited, 2-cent revenue stamp to verso (toning, some fading, few spots). -- CDV, vignetted view of Lincoln. Uncredited (some fading to print). --
CDV, standing portrait of actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln in Ford’s Theater. Mayville, NY: James Honeysett, Photographer & Ambrotypist, n.d. (occasional spotting to print and mount). -- The Assassin's Vision. CDV featuring an artistic rendition of John Wilkes Booth on horseback, escaping from Washington and encountering an apparition of President Lincoln, whom he had just shot in Ford’s Theater. Rhode Island: Francis Hacker, 1865 (toning, spotting throughout).
Together, 4 CDVS, 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 in., or smaller.
Property from William H. Itoh, collector, historian and retired Foreign Service Officer
This lot is located in Cincinnati.