Mar 21, 2019 - Sale 2502

Sale 2502 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
TYLER, JOHN. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, military commission appointing Augustus Cook Brevet Second Lieutenant of Dragoons. Countersigned by Secretary of War William Wilkins. 17x13 1/2 inches; minor staining along folds, docketing written vertically at upper left, paper seal intact. Washington, 26 February 1845

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with--Cook's U.S. Military Academy diploma, signed by Superintendent Richard Delafield and 10 of his instructors, including Hudson Valley painter Robert Walter Weir. 18x16 3/4 inches. West Point, 26 June 1844.