(LINCOLN ABRAHAM) 100000 Reward The Murderer of our Late Bel

Sale 2404 - Lot 171

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(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) $100,000 Reward! The Murderer of our Late Beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is Still at Large. Letterpress broadside, 24 x 12 1/2 inches; minor foxing and offsetting, a few small chips and separations along folds, skillfully stabilized and backed with archival tissue; signed in type by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War. In cloth folding case. Washington, 20 April 1865

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america's most famous reward poster, issued only days after the assassination. Second printing, second issue, with the additional information in Booth's description: "a heavy black moustache, which there is some reason to believe has been shaved off." This copy posted, as usual, without the rare albumen photographs of the conspirators. Provenance: Swann sale, 21 April 1983, lot 96, to the consignor.