A Document On Paper Appointing Jay Haziel Sherman Consul Of The United States To Prince Edward

by Abraham Lincoln

$12,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Washington, D.C. U. S. Government, 17 July 1862 . 445 x 565 mm. 17 3/4 x 22 1/2 . 17 lines of engraved text in copperplate script, with names and dates completed in a fine secretarial hand. Loose, as issued, in an archival mylar sleeve. ◆Neatly mended two-and-three-quarters-inch tear to one edge well away from text , half inch slit to end of one fold, three very short separations along two folds only one

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