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Auction archive: Lot number 51

HANCOCK, John (1737-1793). Document signed ("John Hancock") as Governor of Massachusetts, Boston, 13 May 1793. [ With: ] a signature ("John Hancock"), clipped from a Revolutionary War period Naval commission, c. 1776.

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$6,000
Auction archive: Lot number 51

HANCOCK, John (1737-1793). Document signed ("John Hancock") as Governor of Massachusetts, Boston, 13 May 1793. [ With: ] a signature ("John Hancock"), clipped from a Revolutionary War period Naval commission, c. 1776.

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$6,000
Beschreibung:

HANCOCK, John (1737-1793). Document signed ("John Hancock") as Governor of Massachusetts, Boston, 13 May 1793. [ With: ] a signature ("John Hancock"), clipped from a Revolutionary War period Naval commission, c. 1776. One page, 335 x 210mm, bifolium (dampstain at top); clipped signature: 70 x 168mm (toned). John Hancock summons a new state Senator to Boston. The order, directed to Nathaniel Wells, demands the new senator's presence "at a General Court to be begun and holden at the State House in Boston on Wednesday the twenty nigh of the present May, at Nine o'Clock." [ Also With: ] a signature ("John Hancock 1818") likely accomplished by John Hancock's nephew and namesake.

Auction archive: Lot number 51
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

HANCOCK, John (1737-1793). Document signed ("John Hancock") as Governor of Massachusetts, Boston, 13 May 1793. [ With: ] a signature ("John Hancock"), clipped from a Revolutionary War period Naval commission, c. 1776. One page, 335 x 210mm, bifolium (dampstain at top); clipped signature: 70 x 168mm (toned). John Hancock summons a new state Senator to Boston. The order, directed to Nathaniel Wells, demands the new senator's presence "at a General Court to be begun and holden at the State House in Boston on Wednesday the twenty nigh of the present May, at Nine o'Clock." [ Also With: ] a signature ("John Hancock 1818") likely accomplished by John Hancock's nephew and namesake.

Auction archive: Lot number 51
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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