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Scarce circa 1864 ink signature, "J. Wilkes Booth,” on an off-white 3.25 x .75 slip clipped from a document, handsomely double-matted and framed in a 16 x 14.25 shadowbox display that features an original carte-de-visite portrait of Booth and an original .44-caliber pistol made by Henry Deringer of Philadelphia—the exact make and model used by Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The well-preserved pistol boasts a walnut stock and ornately engraved lock plate, just as Booth's did, stamped by the maker: "Deringer, Phil'a." In fine condition, with two light vertical folds, and a thin old tape stain to the left edge not touching the signature.
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