Feb 11, 2010 - Sale 2202

Sale 2202 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(LINCOLN ASSASSINATION.) CORBETT, BOSTON. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "Boston Corbett / Sergeant Co. L. 16th / N.Y. Cavalry," carte-de-visite portrait by Brady, showing him seated in uniform holding an open book. Signed on the verso. Photographer's full imprint on verso. Approximately 3x2 1/4 inches (image), approximately 4x2 1/2 inches overall; faint offsetting overall verso, revenue stamp verso. Np, nd

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Corbett (1832-1894), a surviving inmate of Andersonville Prison, shot Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, in a burning barn on April 26, 1865.