Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (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, 8 x 10, January 6, 1864. Lincoln directs the Secretary of State “to affix the Seal of the United States to the envelope of a letter of ceremony addressed to His Majesty Christian IX, King of Denmark.” Nicely signed at the conclusion “Abraham Lincoln.” In very good condition, with three small old tape repairs, two to horizontal fold separations and one to a small tear to body, scattered light toning and soiling (the toning most prominent along a vertical strip through the document’s body), and a bit of scattered light creasing.
A bloody war didn’t mean that political protocol had to be abandoned, as evidenced by this congratulatory message to Christian IX on his accession to the throne of Denmark. Albeit nearly two months after the fact—Christian took the throne on November 16, 1863 and reigned until January 1906—Lincoln’s ceremonial pronouncement here was undoubtedly a welcome respite from the dogs of war the president faced daily. The 16th president, at his own expense, also sent Denmark’s ruler a pair of Colt revolvers. As the Civil War continued in America, Lincoln used his favorable relationship with Denmark to try to persuade European nations to side with his administration after the spread of anti-Union feelings in Northern Europe—shrewdly waging a media war at home and abroad. During his decades on the throne, Christian became known as ‘the father-in-law of Europe’ as his six children married into other royal houses—with most current European monarchs his descendants.
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