Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Assassination issue of the New-York Tribune. 8 pages, 21 x 16 inches, on one folding sheet; moderate wear and foxing, slight loss at intersection of folds, a few pencil marks; unopened. New York, 15 April 1865

Additional Details

Assassination coverage appears on page 4: "Highly Important! The President Shot! Secretary Seward Attacked." The final dispatch, from 1:30 a.m., reports that "The President is slowly dying." Four pages have the columns bordered in black.