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    Sale 2486 | Lot 8
    Price Realized: $228With Buyer's Premium
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    • Sale 2486 Lot 8

      (AUTOGRAPHS.) Welles, Gideon. Letter Signed as Secretary of the Navy, with a carte-de-visite. Letter Signed to navy agent E.L. Watson of Boston, authorizing a month's pay to Ensign B.H. Chadwick. One page, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; tape remnants in margins, mount remnants on verso, folds. With an albumen photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 inches, on plain lined mount, "Welles" in manuscript in lower margin. Washington, 16 January 1864

      Estimate $250 - 350


      Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $228
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