Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Bartlett, W.O. $250 Reward! Stolen, Last Night, the White Muslin, Festooned . . . in Mourning for the late President Lincoln. Letterpress broadside, 11 3/4 x 10 inches; early folds, lacking a bit of the lower left corner, small pencil diagram on verso. Middle Island, NY, 26 May 1865
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William Osborne Bartlett (1820-1881) was a prosperous New York lawyer who had known Lincoln personally. We wonder why someone would have stolen the Lincoln mourning cloth from Bartlett's Long Island summer estate, and why Bartlett was exercised to post such an extravagant reward for the thief's capture. On the verso is sketched the seating diagram from the trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. No other copies of this curious broadside are known.