Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Two items: Hugh Mercer. Clipped Signature * Benjamin Lincoln. Document Signed, "BLincoln." The first, removed from a printed document and mounted to his portrait. 1/2x4 inches (signature), 8 1/2x5 inches overall; minor scattered soiling, unevenly toned, printed "THE" between first and last name of signature, extreme end of signature truncated. The second, ordering the Commissary General to pay £4.2.6 to Edward Jones. 4 1/4x8 inches; minor staining at folds, docketing verso with minor bleed-through, inlaid. Np, nd; "Commonwealth of Massachussetts," [circa 16 May 1787]