Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ONE WITH MOURNING BORDER, POSSIBLY CHOSEN IN RESPONSE TO GARFIELD'S DEATH ARTHUR, CHESTER A. Two Signatures, as President, each on an Executive Mansion card. The first, heavy mourning border. 3 1/4x5 or 2 3/4x4 1/4 inches; first with minor smudging, second with minor paperclip stain at upper right, remnants of prior mounting on verso. Washington, nd

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Vice President Arthur assumed the presidency in September of 1881 when James A. Garfield died from complications relating to the gunshot wound he sustained from his assassin.