Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2019
One of Canada’s most prominent lawyers during the 19th century, Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott entered office as Canada’s 3rd Prime Minister in 1891, serving for just over a year. A professor of law at McGill, Abbott was previously elected to the new House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative in the 1867 federal election. We have a signature cut of the honourable Saint-André native, with any signatures from the Victorian politician hard to locate. At 1 ½” x 4 ¾” and on what appears to be handmade paper, the fountain pen Abbott scripting is dark and bold with a graceful flow, with “Yours truly” just above and to the left. The reverse has some faint glue residue along the border, with just a few tiny areas of discolouration beneath the signature, with this mentioned for the strictest accuracy. Abbott would pass at the age of 72, in 1893.
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