$1,500
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
Washington, D.C., January 5, 1836. One sheet folded to make four pages; 15 x 9 7/8 in. (381 x 251 mm). Partially printed document, signed by Jackson, appointing Edward D. Ingraham of Pennsylvania, as a director of the Bank of the United States; counter-signed by Secretary of State, John Forsyth; paper seal at bottom. Creasing from original folds; separated along center fold. Includes two printed views of the Capitol building and one clipped modern printed silhouette of Jackson.
Edward D. Ingraham (1793-1854) was a Philadelphia lawyer, bibliophile, and commissioner in Philadelphia, who notoriously enforced the newly passed Fugitive Slave Law in Pennsylvania in the early 1850s.