autographs and free franks - Stamp Auctions

Lot 1001 - 1: U.S. Postal History autographs and free franks - Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Sale 709 US, British and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Spinner, Francis E., Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury. A total of three free franks on three different colors all-over advertizing for 36th Congress House of Representatives envelopes, one with just his signature, one mailed to Woodstock CT and the third mailed Little Falls NY, the two mailed with 1861 Washington DC Free c.d.s., great ephemeral material for Lincoln collectors, Very Fine.
Estimate $500 - 750

An American politician from New York. On the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, he was appointed by President Lincoln as Treasurer of the United States and served from March 16, 1861, until his resignation on July 1, 1875. He was the first administrator in the federal government to employ women for clerical jobs. He signed the different series of paper money in a singular handwriting, which he cultivated in order to prevent counterfeiting. His signature on the "greenbacks" of the United States was the most familiar autograph in the country .

Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Sale 709 US, British and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History