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Allan Pinkerton

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Allan Pinkerton

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Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 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
Head of the Union Intelligence Service during the Civil War who later founded the first detective agency, the Pinkerton Agency, whose open-eye logo is thought to have been the inspiration for the phrase ‘private eye.’ Manuscript DS, one page, 9 x 13.75, March 20, 1875. A contract for the publication of Claude Melnotte and other detective stories in ?an edition of at least three thousand copies,? from which Pinkerton is to receive a royalty of ten cents a copy. Signed at the conclusion by Pinkerton. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, with several light creases through signature, mild toning, and mounting remannts to reverse.