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Lot 119

Sale 5248 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 15, 2017 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$400 - 600
Price Realized
$2,200
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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Five Presidential mourning ribbons 19th century

Including black silk mourning ribbon printed, "We Mourn our Fallen Chief, U.S. Mint" with small tintype portrait of Abraham Lincoln attached; a white silk ribbon, "In Memory of Departed Worth Gen. Andrew Jackson"; a white silk ribbon with black rosette mourning "Gen. Zachary, Taylor"; and two ribbons memorializing President Garfield; together with a black silk Secretary of State mourning ribbon to William H. Seward, edged in silver metallic braid and fringe.

L: 7 1/2 in. long (largest, without fringe)

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