Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 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, 8 x 8.25, June 13, 1867. Document reads, in full: “I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to my Full Power to A.B. Dickinson, Esqre to negotiate an Article providing for an extension of the time for exchanging the ratifications of the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce with Nicaragua, signed March 16, 1859, dated this day, and signed by me; and for so doing this shall be his warrant.” Attractively matted and framed with a gold-inlaid, sterling silver portrait plate issued in a limited edition by the Franklin Mint in the early-to-mid 1970s, to an overall size of 26.75 x 16.75. A few wrinkles and creases, mild toning to one horizontal fold, and several stray ink marks above signature, otherwise fine condition.
In hopes of securing future international commerce opportunities, President Johnson gave US Minister to Nicaragua Andrew B. Dickinson full power to extend the time for ratifying a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce with the Central American nation. As early as the 1820s, talk circulated of constructing a waterway through the country to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. After an 1849 attempt at construction by Cornelius Vanderbilt showed the potential in the project, the US government began to consider the undertaking more seriously, which inspired the Treaty, initially drafted under President James Buchanan and ratified under Johnson in 1868. A wonderful document regarding the highly important Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal, a project still in the works today. Oversized.
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