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Wallpaper from Abraham Lincoln's Springfield Bedroom. Two irregular swatches of blue and bronze ornamentally patterned wallp...
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Wallpaper from Abraham Lincoln's Springfield Bedroom. Two irregular swatches of blue and bronze ornamentally patterned wallpaper, framed together with a much smaller fragment of wallpaper from the room where he died in the Peterson house, Washington, D.C. The deathroom paper is affixed to a narrow, oblong strip of paper on which one J. Wyatt has penned a shameless confession to his sister, 10 September 1911: "This is a piece of the original wall paper from the room that Lincoln died in. I got it when the man that run the place was not looking but could not help taking it. . . . I stood in the very corner of the room he breathed his last in and that's where this piece of paper came from." An uncommon pairing of papers from the house in which Lincoln lived, and the house in which he died.Provenance: Riba-Mobley auction, South Glastonbury, Conn., sale of 26 October 1985, lot 156
Auction Info
2008 November The John Lattimer Collection of Lincolniana Grand Format Auction #6014 (go to Auction Home page)
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