Abraham Lincoln

This piece—the final page of Lincoln’s second inaugural address—is currently up for auction by a well-known auction house. Any thoughts on authenticity? Trying to figure out why a man would sign his own speech...

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Permalink Reply by James on April 26, 2019 at 1:30am

While I don’t know Lincoln’s handwriting well at all, sonething just doesn’t seem right about this.

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Permalink Reply by Taylor116 on April 26, 2019 at 9:36pm

I believe its good, I don't see the item for sale anymore but I found a listing from 2015 of the same item, and it sold for 2,213,000 dollars. https://historical.ha.com/itm/autographs/abraham-lincoln-autograph-...