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Grover and Frances Cleveland

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
Grover and Frances Cleveland

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Auction Date:2010 Sep 15 @ 22:00 (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
Two checks: Knickerbocker Trust Company bank check, 8 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Cleveland, payable to Susan M. Usburne for $25.00; and a Seaboard National Bank check, 8.5 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed “Frances F. Cleveland,” payable to F. A. O. Schwarz for $11.00. Both are archivally cloth matted and framed by the Gallery of History, with a metallic portrait of the couple to an overall size of 24.5 x 13.5. Grover’s check bears a central vertical fold, expected cancellation holes, small cancellation cut to right side, and a few stray ink marks, otherwise fine condition. Frances’s bears a vertical fold, affecting a single letter of signature, cancellation holes to body, and some light creasing to top left, otherwise fine condition. The former president signed this check as he approached the end of his life. By the fall of 1907 his health had drastically deteriorated and he suffered a fatal heart attack the following year. A pleasant counterpoint in this display is Mrs. Cleveland’s payment to the famed toy store, dated just three days before she remarried, this time to Princeton University professor Thomas J. Preston. Oversized.