Where was John Surratt on April 14, 1865 ?

[Houmes]

(03-16-2017 12:39 PM)Gene C Wrote:  How common was it to have your name written on a hankerchief back then?
Especially if you are a confederate operative?

Quite common in Victorian times. Mary Todd Lincoln had several handkerchiefs and tea napkins embroidered with her initials in both simple and complex designs. Years later, Lincoln Isham (one of President Lincoln's grandsons) when short of cash would periodically travel to Chicago and visit the noted Lincoln scholar and dealer Ralph Newman to sell Lincoln artifacts. These included handkerchiefs with her initials. Newman told me that it took him a few years to catch on to the fact that the handkerchiefs were fakes, hand embroidered by a Chicago seamstress under employ by Mr. Isham.

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(03-16-2017 01:10 PM)Houmes Wrote:  

(03-16-2017 12:39 PM)Gene C Wrote:  How common was it to have your name written on a hankerchief back then?
Especially if you are a confederate operative?

Quite common in Victorian times. Mary Todd Lincoln had several handkerchiefs and tea napkins embroidered with her initials in both simple and complex designs. Years later, Lincoln Isham (one of President Lincoln's grandsons) when short of cash would periodically travel to Chicago and visit the noted Lincoln scholar and dealer Ralph Newman to sell Lincoln artifacts. These included handkerchiefs with her initials. Newman told me that it took him a few years to catch on to the fact that the handkerchiefs were fakes, hand embroidered by a Chicago seamstress under employ by Mr. Isham.

Whoops, sorry. Lincoln Isham was a great grandson of Abraham Lincoln, and grandson of Robert Todd Lincoln.