Sam Houston
Governor of Tennessee, President of Republic of Texas, US Senator Texas and Texas Governor

These Items Have All Been Sold -- They are left for Study Purpose Only

This is a Free Frank envelope from Sam Houston's term as US Senator for Texas, 1846-1859.  This envelope is Post Marked WASHINGTON CITY - FEB 16 1858 - FREE.  SOLD


THINE TRULY:  I could be wrong, but I believe this signature to be Late Republic.  It is like several others I've seen from 1845 when Houston was writing a lot of letters, answering requests and so on.  This is his ornate signature of the size usually seen on Republic fiscal documents.  If you look to the bottom left you can see part of his second signature as found after PS on his many letters.  They could have had two signatures on the same cut had this portion not been separated from the original letter.  The 19th Century engraving from a daguerreotype of Houston goes with the lot and would frame up nicely.  This lot has been:  SOLD


This Sam Houston signature is cut from a Texas Land Patent.  It is dated 14 January 1861 Austin.  There is also a Texas State seal, nearly complete, to left.  
SOLD  Image left for the purpose of Study.



This is another Free Frank envelope from Houston's term as US Senator from Texas.  This Item has been:

 SOLD.  

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Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America  
This is a post WAR check drawn on The Savings Bank of Memphis (Tennessee) dated 8th February 1872.  This Item >  SOLD
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There is No Dot at end of Davis signature.  His wife Varina added a dot on her secretarial signatures for her husband.