5c Grant, Ferrotype Metal Plate and Printing from Metal Plate (223-E11, 223-E12). Two items: first is ferrotype metal plate, 39 x 52mm, depicting portrait of Grant facing left, with outline of his head, face and other elements engraved and filled with red ink, scratch or defect in the plate at left, second is 43 x 56mm thick card showing impression taken from the engraved elements of the plate which is reversed and so shows Grant facing right

VERY FINE. A REMARKABLE PAIR OF ITEMS, CONSISTING OF A FERROTYPE PHOTOGRAPH OF ULYSSES S. GRANT WHICH HAS BEEN PARTLY ENGRAVED, AND A PRINT MADE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH. HIGHLY EXHIBITABLE ITEMS.

Third Assistant Postmaster General A. D. Hazen sent a letter to American Bank Note Co. on November 13, 1889, which notes in part "I was duly in receipt of yours of the 9th instant, and am glad to hear of the progress made in securing a good head of General Grant. Should you photograph the picture sent you a few days since, I should be glad to have a couple of copies, the Postmaster General having expressed a wish to secure one." This is no doubt one of those prints. We have been able to locate perhaps one other (ex "Belmont", Sale 581, 5/22/1981, lot 299).

This probably ex Brazer

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