Archives International Auctions Sale 52 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Coins and Security Printing Ephemera May 14, 2019

Archives International Auctions - Sale 52 66 May 14,2019 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 474 474 James Buchanan (1791-1868), 15th President of theUnited States Signed Envelope Address to him in 1861. Envelope addressed “To the President of the United States.” A penned notation written and signed by the President Buchanan, appears on the left end, “22 January 1861 / Referred to the Secretary of War / James Buchanan”. Buchanan preceded Lincoln as President. Rare autograph on philatelic cover. VF. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $400-800 475 475 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 16th U.S. President. Partly Engraved Document Signed “Abraham Lincoln” as President and “Edwin M. Stanton” as Secretary of War, 1p, 18 by 13.5 inches. Washington, D.C., February 21, 1862. Appointment of N. J. Sappington, later assigned to Elmira Prison to feed captured Confederates, as “Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers with the rank of Captain.” Paper Seal of the Department of War affixed at upper left. Patriotic vignettes of an eagle with wings spread at top center and flags, weapons, military accouterments, and a regiment horn and drum across the bottom. When Elmira Prison opened in upstate New York in August 1864, Nicholas J. Sappington became Commissary of the prison. In January, 1865, many of the military contracts had to be extended or rewritten. Commissary Sappington had hoped to solve his problem of being able to procure better grades of meat for prisoners by stipulating in the new fresh beef contract for larger stock. Elmira flourmills were extremely busy in 1865. Besides the amount needed for meals, Commissary Sappington was required, as he put it, to keep in excess “about 50,000 pounds of hard bread on hand while the Prisoners were held here in case of any accident to the bake ovens.” Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869) was Buchanan’s Attorney General (1860-1861) and Lincoln and Johnson’s Secretary of War (1862-1868). Johnson’s attempt to remove Stanton from his cabinet led to President Johnson’s impeachment. In 1869, Stanton was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant to be an Associated Justice of the Supreme Court. He died just four days after he was confirmed by the Senate. �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������Est. $8500-12500 476 476 THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 26th U.S. President. Partly Engraved Document Signed “Theodore Roosevelt” as President and “Charles J. Bonaparte” as Secretary of the Navy, 1p, 20 by 16 inches. Washington, D.C., February 20, 1906. Blue paper Seal of the Department of the Navy at lower center. Patriotic naval vignettes at top center and across the bottom. Appointment of Carlos A. Gardiner “as a Lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy.” In 1908, Lieutenant Carlos A. Gardiner, while serving on the U.S.S. St. Louis, filed a patent for an improvement in a dress fastener which would be easy to open in areas not readily accessible to the hands of the wearer. Charles J. Bonaparte (1851-1921), grandson of Jérôme, King of Westphalia (brother of Emperor Napoléon), served as President Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Navy (1905-1906) and Attorney General (1906- 1909). During his tenure as the Attorney General, in 1908, Bonaparte created the Bureau of Investigation which was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Est. $1000-2000 477 477 WOODROW WILSON. 28th U.S. President. Partly Engraved Document Signed “Woodrow Wilson” as President and “Henry Breckinridge” as Acting Secretary of War, 1p, 19 by 16 inches. Washington, D.C., June 29, 1914. Blue paper Seal of the War Department at lower left. Patriotic vignettes of an eagle with wings spread at top center and flags, weapons, military accouterments, and a regiment horn and drum across the bottom. Appointment of Gooding Packard (1890-1965), West Point Class of 1914, as “Additional Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.” Henry Breckinridge (1886-1960) was only 27 when he was appointed Wilson’s Assistant Secretary of War in 1913. When Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison resigned in 1916 as a result of bitter disagreements with President Wilson over America’s national defense strategies, Breckinridge also resigned his position out of loyalty to Garrison. He later practiced law where his most famous client and friend was Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Breckinridge was involved in the futile ransom negotiations with the kidnapper of Col. Lindbergh’s son and later, was one of the witnesses at the trial of Bruno Hauptmann.��������������������������������������� Est. $600-1200