Apr 11, 2002 - Sale 1930

Sale 1930 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR.) WELLES, GIDEON. Letter Signed, as Secretary of the Navy, to Abram Cassedy, concerning the capture of the Confederate ships the Deer, the Syren and the Fox and claims for prize money. 1 1/2 pages, folded 4to sheet, Navy Department stationery. Washington, 17 November 1868

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". . . The only vessel on the list you send in which he is entitled to prize money is the 'Deer.' The amount in that case ($56,579.77) was distributed among the officers and crews of 26 vessels of the South Atlantic Block.g Squadron . . ." <