LINCOLN, Abraham. Signature ("A.Lincoln") as President, at the top of a specially printed sheet headed "Autographs of the President and Cabinet 1864," n.p., [Washington, D.C.], 1864. 1 page, large 8vo, decorative printed borders of and red blue intersecting lines, corners slightly rubbed, pale vertical stain crossing some signatures. Below Lincoln's signature are those of the Cabinet: Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Interior John P. Usher, Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair and Attorney-General Edward Bates.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS WAR CABINET
A decorative relic of the 16th President and his cabinet, three of whom (Bates, Seward, Chase) had been rival contenders for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination. This and a number of nearly identical documents signed by the President and his cabinet were created to benefit one of the Sanitary Commission fairs, held to collect medical supplies for wounded soldiers, a cause for which Lincoln frequently furnished examples of his signature.
LINCOLN, Abraham. Signature ("A.Lincoln") as President, at the top of a specially printed sheet headed "Autographs of the President and Cabinet 1864," n.p., [Washington, D.C.], 1864. 1 page, large 8vo, decorative printed borders of and red blue intersecting lines, corners slightly rubbed, pale vertical stain crossing some signatures. Below Lincoln's signature are those of the Cabinet: Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Interior John P. Usher, Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair and Attorney-General Edward Bates.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS WAR CABINET
A decorative relic of the 16th President and his cabinet, three of whom (Bates, Seward, Chase) had been rival contenders for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination. This and a number of nearly identical documents signed by the President and his cabinet were created to benefit one of the Sanitary Commission fairs, held to collect medical supplies for wounded soldiers, a cause for which Lincoln frequently furnished examples of his signature.
![LINCOLN, Abraham. Signature ("A.Lincoln") as President, at the top of a specially printed sheet headed "Autographs of the President and Cabinet 1864," n.p., [Washington, D.C.], 1864. 1 page, large 8vo, decorative printed borders of and red blue intersecting lines, corners slightly rubbed, pale vertical stain crossing some signatures. Below Lincoln's signature are those of the Cabinet: Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Interior John P. Usher, Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair and Attorney-General Edward Bates.](/lot-images/5754295/2013/NYR/2013_NYR_02751_0038_000(lincoln_abraham_signature_as_president_at_the_top_of_a_specially_print071408).jpg?maxwidth=3840)