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Lot 432
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$3,750
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Lot Description
LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Signature “A. Lincoln” cut from a legal document. N.d. [ca 1859].
On a small slip (20 x 75 mm), matted, framed, and glazed (unexamined out of frame). (Tear crossing signature; a few old repairs; some soiling.) Matted with a printed photographic bust portrait of Lincoln taken by Alexander Hesler in Springfield, IL on June 3, 1860. Provenance: Charles Sessler, Philadelphia (typed description on frame verso).