Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
An unused example of the only known design of John Wilkes Booth on a U.S. postal cover, featuring a wood engraving of the assassin by J.D. Ehlers. The cover's design carries the simple title "Booth" at top, with a well-executed engraved portrait bust, which was most assuredly based on a previous image of the famous actor and presidential assassin. The envelope was meant to function as a wanted poster, with melodramatic text makes clear: "Hunt the villain down. Scatter this likeness in every section of the country, scan every face, particularly if it shuns you, observe closely the features which cannot change, make due allowance for the beard to grow, the mustache shaved off, and the hair cut. It may be by your means that a benignant Government shall mete out justice to one for whom there should be no mercy." VG.
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