Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Emancipation Proclamation. A calligraphic portrait rendering of Lincoln as the Proclamation within an elaborate border with two engraved vignettes at the bottom corners and the American Eagle and "E Pluribus Unum" at the top center, 22 x 17 inches; archivally paper-backed with a few faint signs of repair, otherwise a bright, fresh copy. Philadelphia: Duval, 1865, 1864

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A variant on the Pratt calligraphic version of the Proclamation. Eberstadt 40.