Auction Date:2011 Nov 09 @ 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
Highly desirable Springfield Marine and Fire Insurance Company check, 7.25 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Lincoln, “A. Lincoln,” payable to Bailhache & Baker for $5.00, April 21, 1860. In very good to fine condition, with usual cancellation cut through signature (professionally reinforced on the reverse), several vertical folds, a few light ink smudges, a couple slightly affecting signature, and some light creasing and trivial toning.
Four weeks before his presidential nomination, Lincoln wrote this $5 check to the Springfield, Illinois, publishing company that operated the Illinois State Journal. The editor and co-owner of that business, Edward L. Baker, was married to Lincoln’s niece, and the future 16th chief executive was a frequent visitor to the office, where the pair would monitor the political press by pouring over East Coast newspapers, and monitor the mood of the country while discussing national and state affairs. The publication was also one that printed Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech, an address delivered in New York City that outlined his views on slavery, and many historians maintain, was responsible for helping win him the election later that year. Because of Lincoln's silence on political issues prior to his inauguration, political observers looked to other sources for information about his attitude toward the nation's growing political crisis—including the editorial pages of the Illinois State Journal.
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