May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 5,376
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
NAVAL COMMISSION LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, commission appointing James H. Macomber Assistant Surgeon in the Navy. Countersigned by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. 17 1/2x14 1/2 inches; very slight fading to Lincoln and Wells signatures, minor scattered foxing, marginal discoloration from prior matting, few tiny holes at edges, folds, paper seal intact. Washington, 5 August 1861