Auction Date:2011 May 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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 DS as president, one page, 16.5 x 11, July 16, 1861. Lincoln appoints Charles L. Muller to the position of Deputy Postmaster of Hannibal, Missouri. Signed at the conclusion by Lincoln, and countersigned by Secretary of State William Seward. Document has been framed to 17.5 x 12, and together along with a framed 8.5 x 10.5 bust portrait of Lincoln, framed again to an overall size of 25 x 32.5. In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, and a bit of light toning and soiling. The white wafer seal is crisp and intact.
Lincoln had originally appointed Muller to the postal position on April 1, 1861 while Congress was in recess—an appointment made a week before the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter. The president reappointed him via this document three months later with Senate approval—one of more than 200 deputy postmasters so named. During this same time Missouri’s pro-Confederate governor had already been traveling to the southwest portion of that state to organize volunteers and meet with Confederate forces in Arkansas. During the Civil War, Missouri sent men and supplies to both sides, had its star on both flags, had separate governments representing each side, and endured a neighbor-against-neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war. A fascinating piece of Civil War history issued five days before the First Battle of Bull Run. Oversized.
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