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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-through 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." Encapsulated and graded by PSA/DNA as "NM-MT+ 8.5."
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.
