Apr 23, 2009 - Sale 2177

Sale 2177 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(CIVIL WAR.) Autograph album begun by W[esley] D. Barnes containing approximately 40 Signatures by military, political, and other figures, including Andrew Johnson as Vice President, Winfield Scott, Samuel F.B. Morse, John L. Worden, "Charles Stratton known as General Tom Thumb," W[illiam] G[annaway] Brownlow, Mrs. [Sarah] James K. Polk, G[ilbert] C[arlton] Walker, and others. With a few pages decorated by calligraphers. Many are dated, some are identified, most are one or two to a page. Small 8vo, gilt-lettered and blind stamped calf; all edges gilt. Mahoopany, PA, circa 1862