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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM
Collection of
64 elaborately printed commemora-
tive post cards, celebrating Lincoln’s
100th birthday and the Emancipation
Proclamation.
Color-printed, mostly
embossed post cards, some with writing,
condition generally fine.
Vp, Germany, London, etc. 1909
[2,000/3,000]
A RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL GROUPING OF
ELABORATE TESTIMONIALS TO ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
,
POSSIBLY UNIQUE
.
Provenance:
Gordon Bleuler collection to the present owner.
It is unusual to see more than a handful of
these beautiful postcards at any one time, and
given the nature of their printing they are often
in less than “collectible” condition. A great
many of these were custom-made in Germany
for companies like Raphael Tuck London; or
the Washington News Company that had
theirs made in Dresden. The Germans were
the leading houses for greeting cards and other
paper novelties.
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