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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and endorsed at top by E.D. Townshend, Washington, D.C., 6 April 1864. 1 page, folio, edges yellowed from old mat (not affecting text), PRINTED ON FINE PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, blue paper seal of the United States at upper left, bold heading at top "The President of the United States," beneath which an American Eagle and the "E Pluribus Unum" motto fly above billowing clouds, a large vignette of crossed flags, cannon and other military paraphernalia at bottom, with small legend "Engraved by J.V.N. and C. H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript. A SURGEON'S APPOINTMENT, making J.H. Kinsman an Assistant Surgeon in the Union Army. [With:] COLE, TIMOTHY, artist. A large oval engraved portrait of Lincoln by Timothy Cole, 1928, printed on India paper, signed by the artist in pencil in lower margin. (2)
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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and endorsed at top by E.D. Townshend, Washington, D.C., 6 April 1864. 1 page, folio, edges yellowed from old mat (not affecting text), PRINTED ON FINE PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, blue paper seal of the United States at upper left, bold heading at top "The President of the United States," beneath which an American Eagle and the "E Pluribus Unum" motto fly above billowing clouds, a large vignette of crossed flags, cannon and other military paraphernalia at bottom, with small legend "Engraved by J.V.N. and C. H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript. A SURGEON'S APPOINTMENT, making J.H. Kinsman an Assistant Surgeon in the Union Army. [With:] COLE, TIMOTHY, artist. A large oval engraved portrait of Lincoln by Timothy Cole, 1928, printed on India paper, signed by the artist in pencil in lower margin. (2)