Lincoln Assassination Newspapers

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(01-08-2016 08:46 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Rick, do you still buy and sell these old newspapers, and any other newspaper of famous events.

I quit being a dealer in the mid-1990s. However, I do have a run of the Buffalo newspapers for the Garfield assassination. (Garfield was shot in Buffalo which makes these issues more desireable.) I also have a quantity of 20th century newspapers that are highly graphic for major events WWII. In addition, I have numerous "atmosphere" newspapers from the early 1800s to 1880s. Atmosphere newspapers contain no major events, but still quite interesting at a much lower cost. All of these I would sell.

Recently I discovered that one of my 200 Lincoln assassination newspapers is a duplicate. It is the April 28, 1865 Cleveland Morning Leader with front page coverage of the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth. What makes this edition so rare and unusual is that pages 2 and 3 are "broadside" memorials to Abraham Lincoln. (Broadsides are "posters" printed one side only. Technically, this edition does not qualify as a true broadside since the backs of both pages have printing. However NO OTHER NEWSPAPERS had any "broadsides" in any of their editions.) Image attached. Price is $425 postpaid and insured. Images attached. Condition is extra-fine. (Newspapers in that era were printed on paper made from cloth fibers instead of wood pulp. This is the same paper that currency was printed on. Thus, they do not become brittle or excessibely yellowed.)

Rick Brown
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