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Group of 6 Issued Certificates 1806-1885

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:80.00 - 150.00 USD
Group of 6 Issued Certificates 1806-1885
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Pennsylvania. 6 Pieces. 2 Documents from the Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania regarding State Appropriation to local schools. Other pieces in the lot are items declared/imported for example Caleb Wright brought in 11,580 pounds of coffee on the Schooner Conquest, Capital Gallagher-the Master of the Barque Louisa, arrived with 1,000 "segars" from Havana, Cuba. Included in lot is a Deposit slip signed by Daniel Edgar Sickles. Sickels was a Congressman of New York who killed Philip Key (son of Frances Scott Key) for having an affair with his wife. Sickles was charged with murder. He secured several leading politicians as defense attorneys, among them Edwin M. Stanton, later to become Secretary of War, and Chief Counsel James T. Brady who, like Sickles, was associated with Tammany Hall. Sickles pleaded temporary insanity—the first use of this defense in the United States. Before the jury, Stanton argued that Sickles had been driven insane by his wife's infidelity, and thus was out of his mind when he shot Key. The papers soon trumpeted that Sickles was a hero for "saving all the ladies of Washington from this rogue named Key". Then during the Civil War, Sickles had a leg amputated after it was damaged from cannon fire at the Battle at Cemetery Ridge. He preserved the bones from his leg and donated them to the museum in a small coffin-shaped box, along with a visiting card marked, "With the compliments of Major General D.E.S." For several years thereafter, he reportedly visited the limb on the anniversary of the amputation. The museum, now known as the National Museum of Health and Medicine, still displays this artifact. 6 Pieces.