May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, military commission appointing George Drake First Lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment of Infantry. Countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 19 1/4x15 3/4 inches; slight fading to signature, horizontal fold through signature (without loss), deep folds, loss to paper seal, docketing at upper left recto. Washington, 1 July 1864