LOT #43382 |
Sold on Feb 13, 2022 for: Sign-in
or Join (free & quick)
Abraham Lincoln: Group of Six Mourning Cartes de Visite [CDVs]. ...
Click the image to load the highest resolution version.
Description
Abraham Lincoln: Group of Six Mourning Cartes de Visite [CDVs]. A group of six Abraham Lincoln mourning CDVs. Mourning cartes de visite were incredibly popular following Lincoln's assassination. According to Lincoln in Photographs, "composites of paintings and photographs...helped turn Lincoln into an American folk-hero. Scarcely a parlor album in the North was without at least one such maudlin memento." [Lincoln in Photographs, 242](1) "Traitor's Doom and the Assassin's End." A dramatic CDV with an eagle perched on a tree limb with miniature Lincoln CDV in its beak. A miniature Jefferson Davis dressed in woman's clothing is attempting to extricate himself from the eagle's right claw. A ribbon labeled "Booth the Assassin" is clutched in the eagle's left claw. Recto imprint reads, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1895, by H. Tilden...for the District of Massachusetts." 2.5" x 4". (2) "National Lincoln Monument." CDV with front imprint that reads, "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1878, by J. A. W. Pittman...at Washington, D.C." Back mark from J. A. W. Pittman of Springfield, Illinois. 2.5" x 4". (3) "Columbia's Indignation." Front imprint reads, "Entered according to Act of Congress, the year 1865, by H. W. Horton...for the District of Mass...Make a Chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes. Composed by C. A. Barry, for H. W. Horton, Photographer...Boston." 2.5" x 4". (4) "Abraham Lincoln, President of the United State. Born Feb. 12th, 1809, Assassinated April 14th, 1865." Lithographic vignette of O-92 with black mourning border. Front imprint reads, "F. L. LeRoy, O."2.5" x 4". (5) "The Photograph of our Late President, Abraham Lincoln, was taken from a Portrait executed with the Steel Pen by Prof. J.N. Gardner, Principal of Gardner's Business College, Scranton, PA." CDV with back mark advertising for Gardner's Business College and Phonographic Institute. 2.5" x 4". (6) CDV of the Lincoln Funeral Procession. Front imprint reads, "W.W. Wiley, Olive Green, O." 4" x 2.5".
With expected wear and some light toning. Fine condition. From The Collection of Dr. Blaine Houmes
Auction Info
2022 February 12 - 13 Lincoln and His Times Americana & Political Signature® Auction #6251 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
February, 2022
12th-13th
Saturday-Sunday
Bids + Registered Phone Bidders: 17
Lot Tracking Activity: N/A
Page Views: 250
Buyer's Premium per Lot:
25% on the first $300,000 (minimum $49), plus 20% of any amount between $300,000 and $3,000,000, plus 15% of any amount over $3,000,000 per lot.
Shipping, Taxes, Terms and Bidding
Terms and Conditions | Bidding Guidelines and Bid Increments | Glossary of Terms
Important information concerning Sales Tax and Resale Certificates. Learn More
Terms and Conditions | Bidding Guidelines and Bid Increments | Glossary of Terms