Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Telegram announcing the Lincoln assassination on the remote northern coast of Nova Scotia. Manuscript message on printed American Telegraph Company form, 7 1/4 x 5 inches, from J.W. McPhie of Pictou, Nova Scotia to Mrs. Cogswell of Antigonish, Nova Scotia; moderate wear, laid down on the detached inside front cover of an unknown book. Pictou, NS, 15 April 1865
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An artifact showing how the news of the Lincoln assassination traveled across the world. This message was sent from a small town on Nova Scotia's northern coast to a smaller town yet further east along the coast. "President Lincoln was shot last night at Washington Theatre. Sc'y Seward & son stabbed, latter mortally. Lincoln died at 7 this morning."