Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR.) BUTLER, BENJAMIN F. Autograph Quotation dated and Signed, "Benj. F Butler": "We are puppets all; man / in his pride, / and beauty fair in her flower, / Ever moved by an unseen / hand at a game" [paraphrase of lines from Tennyson's "Maud"]. (MRS) Lowell, 26 May 1863

Additional Details

with--Carte-de-visite photograph, 1/2-length portrait of Butler, unsigned.