Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 397

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
TITANTIC VICTIM BUTT, ARCHILBALD WILLINGHAM. Photograph, signed and inscribed, of Roosevelt's military aide. 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, on original mount with photographer's inscription below; inscribed "With love to both from your friend Archibald W. Butt." Not examined outside of frame. Washington, 14 May 1904

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Archibald Willingham Butt (1865-1912) was a close friend and military aide to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft from 1908 to 1912. He is perhaps better known as a passenger who died aboard the RMS Titanic--on a vacation he took at Taft's insistence.