May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 4,096
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, commission appointing William Borrowe First Lieutenant in the Second Regiment of Artillery. Countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 18 1/4x15 3/4 inches; horizontal fold through Lincoln signature without loss, moderate dampstaining and worming at lower center and left with marked loss to Stanton signature, paper seal mostly intact. Washington, 1 July 1864