Jun 25, 2024 - Sale 2674

Sale 2674 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PRESIDENTS.) Group of 6 items, each Signed by a President or First Lady, most as President or First Lady. Format and condition vary; most mounted on album page with another autograph written or mounted on verso. Vp, vd

Additional Details

Three White House or Executive Mansion cards: Grover Cleveland • Frances Cleveland • Woodrow Wilson. Additionally dated. Each 2¾x4½ inches. Washington, [26 February 1887?]; 7 October 1913.
Edith Bolling Wilson. Franking Signature, on envelope containing printed card expressing thanks for sympathy [upon death of her husband]. 3½x6 inches, card and envelope with mourning border. Washington, 12 March 1924 [from postmark] • Millard Fillmore. Partly-printed Letter Signed, to J.H. Whitehurst, reporting that he has been awarded an Exhibitor's Medal for the daguerreotypes of the Niagara Falls he displayed at the 1851 Works of all Nations exhibition in London. Additionally signed by Executive Committee Chairman Peter Force. 1 page, 4to, "Executive Mansion" stationery; mounted to board trimmed to size, moderate scattered dampstaining, moderate even toning overall. Washington, 31 January 1853 • Eleanor Roosevelt. White House card. 2¾x4¼ inches. Washington, Np, nd.
With--Typed letter from Eleanor Roosevelt's secretary Malvina T. Scheider apologizing that "it is not possible to bring requests for autographs to the President's attention as he is so extremely busy," but sending the autograph of Mrs. Roosevelt [present]. 1 page, 8vo, White House stationery. Washington, 16 February 1937.