1865 MILITARY APPOINTMENT, SIGNED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT

LINCOLN, Abraham. Engraved document signed. Washington: March 7, 1865. Single vellum sheet (16 by 18 inches), partially printed and finished in a secretarial hand, embossed blue paper seal; floated, matted and framed with a portrait, entire piece measures 26-1/2 by 33 inches. $25,000.

Splendid Lincoln Civil War document appointing George A. Bachelder as "Additional Paymaster of Volunteers," countersigned by Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, with fragile paper seal present, beautifully framed.

This commission was signed by Lincoln only days before Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, and less than six weeks before his assassination. Handsomely engraved with two military vignettes, one of an emblematic eagle and the other an army motif with crossed flags, cannon, and other accouterments of war. Docketed in red ink in upper left-hand corner.

Fold lines, with light wear along central fold, slightly affecting Stanton's signature; Lincoln's signature bold and clear.