Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--1865.) The Flag of America Shall Never Grow Dim, Nor One Star be Obliterated from its Bright Galaxy! Illustrated broadside, 19 x 12 inches; minor wear, cello tape repair at fold. [Philadelphia, 1865]

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A recruitment broadside for Winfield Scott Hancock's First Army Corps of Veterans, illustrated with cuts of three soldiers. Hancock's recruitment letter and the pay scale are included along with patriotic exhortations. Signed in type by Benjamin Franklin as Philadelphia's chief of police.