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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ULYSSES S. GRANT Official portrait, signed below the image ("U.S. Grant"), [c.1870]
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,530 inc. premium
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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ULYSSES S. GRANT
Official portrait, signed below the image ("U.S. Grant"), steel-engraved by the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing, showing him as President in civilian clothes, head-and-shoulders within an oval, turned to his right, the Bureau's imprint below, some paper tears within the plate and an old ink-stain in the margin, some light spotting, traces of mounting verso, but nevertheless still an attractive image, 200 x 130mm., [c.1870]
Footnotes
The Bureau of Printing and Engraving had been set up in 1861 to enable the Union to raise money through the issue of banknotes during the Civil War, although it was not officially recognised under that title until 1874; taking over the production of postage stamps in 1894. The portrait is seemingly engraved from a photograph by Matthew Brady.