Beschreibung:

SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. Collection of 42 (of 56) signatures (mostly clipped, but a few ANS's or DS's) of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (and one facsimile signature of Button Gwinnett). Various sizes, all in ink on vellum or paper, some with browning, foxing, or evidence of mounting, mostly individually matted (some with portraits) and framed (a few framed in pairs or groups). Unexamined out of frames, therefore sold not subject to return. Includes: Benjamin Franklin (clipped signature with 2-lines of holograph lines closing letter), Lewis Morris (clipped signature from a letter apparently to his son which closes "I am yr. aft. father..."), Samuel Adams (clipped signature), William Ellery and Josiah Bartlett (clipped signatures, matted together), John Hancock (ANS requesting payment of 200 pounds sterling to Samuel Abbot & Co. Boston, 29 December 1772), Robert Morris (LS to the Governor of New York. Office of Finance, 29 October 1783), William Williams (DS), Francis Hopkinson (Printed check signed), Samuel Chase (clipped signature with 4-lines closing letter), William Floyd (clipped signature), William Whipple (clipped signature), G. Ross (clipped signature), George Wythe and George Walton (clipped signatures matted together), Francis Lightfoot Lee (clipped signature), Oliver Wolcott (clipped signature from printed doc.), Robert Treat Paine (clipped signature), Benjamin Harrison (DS), G. Read (clipped signature), Roger Sherman ("Roger Sherman's" clipped from letter), James Wilson (clipped signature dated "Nov(?) 30th, 1776"), John Morton (clipped signature), Richard Henry Lee (clipped signature), John Hart (signature on a twelve shillings note), Samuel Huntington (clipped signature), Thomas Heyward, Jr. (DS), Gerry Elbridge ("E Gerry" clipped signature from a doc.), Stephen Hopkins (ANS), Abraham Clark (clipped signature), Jonathan Trumbull (clipped signature with 4-lines of holograph), Charles Carroll of Carrollton (clipped signature), George Clymer (Signed check), Matthew Thornton (clipped signature from doc. verso), Philip Livingston, Edward Rutledge and Caesar Rodney (clipped signatures matted together), James Smith (clipped signature), William Paca (clipped signature), Thomas McKean (clipped signature), Richard Stockton (clipped signature), Benjamin Rush (clipped signature). (42)