Auction Date:2011 Apr 13 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Partly-printed war-dated DS as president, one page, 21.5 x 16.75, April 13, 1863. Four language ship’s paper issued to “James L. Chapman, master or commander of the Ship called Josephine…lying at present in the port of New Bedford bound for Pacific Ocean and laden with provisions, stores, and utensils for a whaling voyage.” Signed in the third panel, “Abraham Lincoln,” and countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward. Nicely cloth matted and framed with a small color portrait and plaque to an overall size of 37.75 x 28. In very good to fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered light toning and foxing, a few edge creases, a couple small separations along folds, and an apparent repair along central horizontal fold, lightly affecting a printed line of text to three panels, but not the signed panel.
Whaling voyages, treacherous in their own rights, were compounded during the Civil War. Confederate cruisers like the Shenandoah, the Alabama and the Florida destroyed over 50 Yankee whalers. Even so, whalers were still willing to take their chances on the high seas, as the baleen market peaked during the war, with high demand particularly for items related to women’s fashion. Lincoln too had much on his mind when signing this document, having received notification the day before from General Hooker that he was preparing to cross the Rappahannock and move against the enemy. This would lead to Union and Confederate forces meeting at Chancellorsville and Mary’s Heights, both defeats for the Union. Oversized.
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