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Sale 56: The Westpex Sale

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1857 Issue

Lot 1438    

1857, 3¢ dull red, type III, on cover to Trenton, N.J. canceled with "Paid" handstamp and matching "Elizabethport, N.J., Nov 2" cds's, manuscript "For Old Abe Inquire at the Back Door (Over)" directive at left, printed Abram, Spare This Head Lincoln poem affixed on reverse reading…Abram, spare this head, Touch not a single hair, Of its official life, For Old Buck placed it there! If victims you must have, Strike at my friends, Jo Yard, Josephus Shaun and Speer - Dear Abram, hit 'enormous margins hard! But spare this head of mine, And I will never fail, To bless "that same old Coon, A sittin on a Rail!", with additional "Honest Old Abe." in manuscript above; opened at side for display, Very Fine, an unusual Lincoln political propaganda cover; with 2012 P.F. certificate.
Scott No. 26    Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.

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