Manuscript document signed, as President, contracting with sculptor Hiram Powers on behalf of the United States commissioning marble statues of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin

by James Buchanan

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

2pp., plus integral blank, folded folio sheet. Countersigned by Edward Everett and Theodore Dehon on behalf of Powers. Marked Original in the top margin of the first page. With: A signed CDV of Powers and an unsigned CDV of his wife. Old folds, minor soiling, later ink annotations to verso of CDVs, else very good. Item #369743 The statues are described as eight feet each, and costing the government an astounding 10,000 per statue. The contract

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