A rare manuscript documenting Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' personal financing of Baron Friedrich von Steuben's 1777 voyage to America sold for $65,425 at RR Auction.
A twice-signed 1782 Benjamin Franklin promissory note documenting France's financial support for the American Revolution sold for $484,151 at RR Auction.
President Andrew Johnson's handwritten manuscript making the national day of mourning for Abraham Lincoln sold for $34,999, and many others sold with remarkable results at our Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Civil War and Abraham Lincoln.