Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
Lincoln Assassination - Mourning Order. Printed Circular Letter from the Treasury Department, signed in facsimile by Secretary Hugh McCulloch, one page, 7.5" x 9", within narrow black mourning borders, Washington, D.C., April 17, 1865, excellent. "It is hereby ordered that, in honor to the memory of our late illustrious Chief Magistrate, all officers and others subject the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, wear crape upon the left arm for the period of six months." Beginning as a bank cashier in Fort Wayne, Indiana, McCulloch rose to be Comptroller of the Currency under Salmon P. Chase and was appointed Lincoln's third Secretary of the Treasury barely a month before the assassination. He was among the Cabinet members who visited the President's deathbed at the Peterson House, and continued in office under Andrew Johnson, briefly serving again (1884-85) under Chester Arthur. We know of only one other example of this mourning order, selling in the Dr. John Lattimer sale at Heritage Auction, November 2008, lot #61165, realizing $1,553.50. This far superior example (The Lattimer example had mounting remnants on the front and back) is a true Lincoln rarity.
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