Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 292

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN)
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Albumen print, 7 1/4x5 1/4 inches (18.4x13.3 cm.), mounted to a sheet and behind an oval overmat, which has the notation Ballard's Lincoln, a date stamp, and a mounted label with printing notations, in ink, in an unknown hand, on recto. 1861
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Additional Details

This image seems to correspond to a photograph made by C.S. German in Springfield, on January 26, 1861. The portrait for the original ten-dollar greenback was engraved from this photograph (Meserve and Sandburg, The Photographs of Abramham Lincoln, 34).