Lot 354
Doubleday, Abner (1819-183) Union general; purported to be the inventor of baseball. In 1861, Doubleday was stationed at Fort Sumter; when Confederate forces attacked on April 12, he gave the command for the first Union shot to be fired in retaliation. Autograph Letter Signed "Genl A. Doubleday / U.S. Army," 1p, 7¼"x4¾", Mendham Morris Co., New Jersey (18)89, Sept. 25. Very good; minor soiling at lower left corner; small edge split. To Smiths Homeopathic Pharmacy, 5th Avenue, New York, asking for "a fifteen cent bottle of Gelsimicum 3th dilution pellets, and a ten cent bottle of Phosphoric acid 30 pellets…."
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000.
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