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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Signature ("A.Lincoln") as President, on a specially printed sheet headed "Autographs of the President and Cabinet 1864," n.p., n.d, [Washington, D.C.], 1864. 1 page, large 8vo, decorative printed borders of blue intersecting lines, small tear at top left corner carefully repaired, backed, slightly browned. Below Lincoln's signature are those of Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Interior John P. Usher, Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair and Attorney-General Edward Bates.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS CABINET
An attractive decorative relic of the President and cabinet, prepared for unknown reasons, but perhaps to be sold to benefit the Sanitary Commission, a cause for which Lincoln frequently furnished examples of his signature.
Provenance: Calvin Bullock (sale, Christie's New York, 19 December 1986, lot 121).
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS CABINET
An attractive decorative relic of the President and cabinet, prepared for unknown reasons, but perhaps to be sold to benefit the Sanitary Commission, a cause for which Lincoln frequently furnished examples of his signature.
Provenance: Calvin Bullock (sale, Christie's New York, 19 December 1986, lot 121).