Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Proclamation of Emancipation, by R.A. Dimmick. Lithograph, 22-1/4x17-1/4 inches; paper evenly toned with a faint vertical "streak" through approximately the center (cleanable). Shows the text of the Proclamation in a center panel, surrounded by engraved vignettes; at the top is a circular portrait of Lincoln, draped with the flag and topped by the American eagle. New York: Alvord, 1864

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One of the scarcer versions of the Proclamation, dated October, 27 1864. Reproduced in the Saturday Evening Mail of February 6, 1909. Eberstadt, No. 21.