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Lot 795

Sale 1194 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online
Lots Open
Jun 26, 2023
Lots Close
Jul 7, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$250 - 350
Price Realized
$252
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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[POLITICS]. 12 photographs and prints of Lincoln, Grant, and McClellan.


3/4 x 1 in. albumen portrait of George McClellan after lithograph/engraving housed under brass mat (light toning and some spotting to print). Displayed atop red, white, and blue ribbon and tassels and housed under glass in folk art wood frame, 9 1/2 x 12 in.

[With:] 5 1/4 x 7 3/8 oval albumen portrait after lithograph/engraving of Lincoln and his family, affixed to original cardstock mount with caption printed in lower margin (toning, fading, and some spotting to print; toning, spotting, edge and corner wear to mount, significant crease to lower right corner of mount). -- 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. albumen photograph after lithograph/engraving of Lincoln and his family on cardstock mount with 3 cent internal revenue stamp affixed to mount verso (top left corner of print partially torn and separated from mount, toning and spotting to print; edge and corner wear to mount including chipping and some staining). -- 7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (sight) print of Lincoln and his family housed in oval frame (print unexamined outside frame; chipping and some wear to frame). -- Grant in Peace. 8 x 10 in. engraving (including margins) of Ulysses S. Grant. Philadelphia, PA: John Dainty, n.d. (toning, spotting, staining to print). 

[Also with:] 7 prints of identified figures, 22 x 27 3/4 in., or smaller (poor to fair condition overall). Subjects include: Andrew Jackson. Philadelphia: William Smith, n.d. (fold lines, toning and some staining to margins). -- Geo. B. McClellan USA Late Commander in Chief. N.p.: n.p., n.d. (staining, spotting, tears and loss to edges and corners). -- Sa. Majeste Nicolas Ier. Empereur de toutes les Russies. Paris: Ernest Bourdin, n.d. (spotting throughout, edge and corner wear including tearing, creasing, some chipping). -- Rev. D.W. Cahill, D.D. New York: Ph. McCawley, 1860. Mounted on board (heavy toning, staining, spotting to print, some loss to edges and corners). -- Portraits of Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson (toning, some spotting, edge and corner wear including some loss).

Estate of Carroll J. Delery III, Formerly the “Historical Shop”

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