Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 3,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Clipped Signature, "A. Lincoln," mounted to upper edge of Autograph Letter Signed by his son, Robert Todd Lincoln. The clipped signature, likely removed from a check. 1 1/4x2 3/4 inches; faint scattered staining. The letter, to Robert T. Lincoln's law partner Edward Swift Isham, sending his father's autograph. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; faint scattered staining, horizontal folds. Np, nd; letter: Chicago, [3 January 1878]
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"I am very glad to gratify young Mr. Pellew, so far as I can.
"I have nothing with my father's signature attached except some returned checks from one of which I have cut the enclosed. . . ."