May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 1,170
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
PIERCE, FRANKLIN. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, military commission appointing Robert N. Scott Second Lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment of Infantry. Countersigned by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. 18 3/4x15 1/4 inches; deep folds affecting signatures with minor loss, cockling to all edges, moderate dampstaining at edges, slight fading to text but signatures relatively bold, docketing at upper left recto, paper seal intact. Washington, 3 March 1857