Lot 51314 – Abraham Lincoln Signed Document, Sixteenth President

Abraham Lincoln Signed Document, Sixteenth President of the United States (1809-1865), Lincoln successfully led the country through its greatest constitutional, Military and Moral crisis – The American civil war (1861-65). He was assassinated at the close of the civil war in 1865.

An Attractive vellum partly printed Civil war dated Naval document Signed by Lincoln, appointing « George Washington Hayward » a midshipman in the navy of the united states. Nicely signed at the conclusion in black ink by Lincoln, countersigned by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, dated June 1st 1861, measures 420mm x 315mm, a few intersecting storing folds as to be expected on a document this size (one through the opening stroke of the signature) and a few other light creases, though all writing including Lincoln’s is very clear and bold. A great rarity.

Note: This document has been generously donated to be sold on behalf of Medicines Sans Frontières and is sold without reserve, so please bid generously.