Another archive sale

[Steve]

With all the talk about the potential Lincoln Library auction, I came across this press release for an upcoming sale of a private archive supposedly worth $163 million dollars being offered at a steep discount if what the press release is saying is on the level:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...49286.html

[LincolnMan]

Mind boggling.

[L Verge]

I also find it mind boggling as to how one stores all of these holdings. Louise Taper once told me that her collection was split up among many secure facilities and that the fees for each were quite high. Conserving and protecting one's collections runs the cost up more than the acquisition alone.

[emma1231]

I have a rare photo for sale, and thought I'd post it here if it's OK. It's an original mounted composite photo of the stage and all four boxes (L & R) inside Ford's Theatre. ( I always thought that every interior photo had been taken by Brady, but according to Nicholas Pistor's "Shooting Lincoln" that isn't neccessarily so; he credits Gardner with having taken all or most of them.) THe picture has been published quite a few times in books, and I think it's in the Library of Congress. I believe mine dates back to either 1865 or shortly thereafter. There's scribbling in pencil on the obverse side that is part of the provenance. It comes with a short longhand note from Joseph Sessford (ticket seller at Ford's on the night of the assassination) to a man named Rosenberg, in which he says he has this photo and would sell it to him. From what I have been able to find out, Rosenberg was also known as Al Emmett Fostell, a well known Lincoln collector. I found the picture and note early in 1977 in the possession of a man whose father had once been a business partner of Fostell's. The image is in great shape, and slightly faded, on account of my having had it framed and displayed in my Lincoln room for a few years. I noticed the fading beginning about twelve years ago and decided to keep it in a black acid-free container, by itself. Even though it's ever-so-slightly faded, it's gorgeous. But it's time to sell it ,after 44 years. I believe that original prints of this are exceedingly rare. Anyone out there interested? Let me know and only then will I discuss terms, privately.