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Lot 490
Sale 6319 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography
May 1, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$600 -
800
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$1,440
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Lot Description
[LINCOLN FUNERAL]. A group of 12 CDVs featuring generals and other high ranking officers wearing Lincoln mourning badges and bands. Incl. Generals GRANT, LOGAN, EKIN, & MCLAUGHLIN.
12 CDVs of Union generals and other officers wearing mourning bands or badges in remembrance of Abraham Lincoln following his assassination, ca 1865. Subjects include:
Ulysses S. Grant, mourning band on arm. Philadelphia: F. Gutekunst. -- David G. Farragut, mourning band on arm. Boston & Newport, RI: Black & Case. -- John Logan, mourning ribbon tied around arm. Washington, DC: John Goldin & Co. -- James Adam Ekin, mourning ribbon tied around sword. Autographed in lower margin, "James A. Ekin, Bvt. Brig. Gen." Chicago: S.M. Fassett. Ekin served as one of the adjudicating officers in the Military Commission that tried the conspirators. -- Napoleon Bonaparte McLaughlen, mourning ribbon tied around arm. Boston: G.H. Loomis. -- Captain Abner L. Knowlton, 4th New Hampshire Volunteers, mourning ribbon tied around arm. Laconia, NH: W.L. Wilder. -- Uniformed man with sword in hand, mourning badge pinned to his arm. Monterey, Mexico: Alberto Fahrenberg. Possibly a US Consulate to Mexico based on imprint. -- Unidentified officer holding a hat with a felt XXIII Corps badge, mourning badge pinned to arm. Concord, NH: Kimball & Son. 2-cent US Internal Revenue stamp on verso. -- Unidentified officer, mourning ribbon pinned to arm. Rochester, NY: Taylor & Bacon. -- Unidentified officer, mourning band on arm. Lowell, MA: A.J. Simpson. Accompanied by envelope dated 1862 with inscription, possibly from the officer shown in the CDV, indicating that he was a "Major and Chief Quartermaster" on the staff of a brigadier general with indiscernible name, 1st Brigade of Cavalry. -- Unidentified Chief Engineer of US Navy, mourning band on arm. Philadelphia: E.S. Keeler. 2-cent US Internal Revenue stamp on verso. -- Unidentified Naval Ensign, mourning cockade on arm. Philadelphia: O.H. Willard, June 1865. 3-cent US Internal Revenue stamp on verso.
Together, 12 CDVs.
Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey
This lot is located in Cincinnati.





