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Crisp ink signature as president, "Abraham Lincoln,” on an off-white 5.5 x 1.75 slip clipped from an official document, also signed by Secretary of State William H. Seward. In fine condition, with light show at the left edge from the contemporary notation on the back, which reads: "Presented me by my friend Wm. Mathews of the Office of the Sec'y of the Treasury, S. C. Roberts, May 1, 1865." A desirable piece signed by two casualties of the Lincoln assassination conspiracy: while John Wilkes Booth succeeded in killing President Lincoln, his associate Lewis Powell seriously wounded Secretary of State Seward in a stabbing at his home in Washington, D.C.
From the Collection of Paul K. Carr, former UACC President and Noted Expert.
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