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Lot 191
[LINCOLN] Abraham Lincoln 1856 Autograph Document
Estimate: $1,500 - $3,000
Sold for
$3,750
Sold Price excludes BP
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Autograph (unsigned) document by Abraham Lincoln. [Springfield?], Illinois, 14 July 1856. 2 pages, folio.
A rare, lengthy document from Abraham Lincoln's law career, completed entirely in his hand, regarding the suit between the Ohio + Mississippi Railroad Company, which Lincoln represented, against Eads & Nelson.
Eads & Nelson was a company that salvaged sixty of the railroad's cars after they sank in the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky, and St. Louis. The railroad and the salvage company differed on the amount of compensation that Eads & Nelson should receive for salvaging fifty-two of the sixty cars.
Documents from Lincoln's early legal career are scarce, and those in his hand even more so.
[Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Mary Todd Lincoln, 1860 Election, Election of 1860, 1864 Election, Election of 1864, Lincoln Assassination, John Wilkes Booth] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]
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