1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Mourning Rosette with Ferrotype Stickpin

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Mar 20, 2021

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  Abraham Lincoln Related
  Exceptional 1865 Abraham Lincoln Assassination Mourning Ferrotype Stickpin Displayed Large Multilayer Silk Rosette
  c. 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Black & White Silk Mourning Rosette with Central "A. LINCOLN" Central Ferrotype Stickpin, Choice Extremely Fine.
  1865 Large Multilayer Silk Mourning rosette with a 1864 Presidential Capaign Ferrotype Stickpin of Lincoln forming its center. The Stickpin measures about 0.75" in diameter and is attached to a black and white rosette measuring 4.25" in diameter with two Silk Ribbons in black and white measuring 7.25" long below. The Stickpin, featuring Lincoln's portrait facing left with "A. LINCOLN" in print above and a black fabric border, dates from Lincoln's 1864 Presidential reelection campaign, re-appropriated here following his assassination. There is some darkness on the letters "COLN" in "LINCOLN", otherwise the Ferrotype and Rosette appear undamaged and in excellent clean condition.
  After the April 14, 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, a three-week series of events mourned his death and memorialized his life. Funeral services and lyings in state were held in Washington, D.C., and then in additional cities as a funeral train transported his remains for burial in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois.
  Lincoln's eldest son Robert Todd rode the train to Baltimore and then disembarked and returned to the White House. Lincoln's wife Mary Todd Lincoln remained at the White House because she was too distraught to make the trip. Robert took a later train to Springfield for his father's final funeral and burial.
  The remains of Lincoln's younger son, William Wallace Lincoln (1850-1862) were also placed on the train, which left Washington, D.C., on April 21 at 12:30 pm and traveled 1,654 miles (2,662 km) never exceeding 20 mph to the final stop at Springfield, arriving on May 3. Several stops, in principal cities and state capitals, were made along the way in which ceremonies and processions were held. The train largely retraced the route Lincoln had traveled to Washington as the president-elect on his way to his first inauguration, more than four years earlier. Millions of Americans viewed the train along the route, and participated in the ceremonies and processions.
  Lincoln was interred on May 4, 1865 at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. The site of the Lincoln Tomb, now owned and managed as a state historic site, is marked by a 117-foot (36 m)-tall granite obelisk surrounded with several bronze statues of Lincoln, and soldiers and sailors constructed by 1874. Mary Todd Lincoln and three of their four sons, Willie, Eddie, and Tad are also buried there.
  
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