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Auction: 394 - Coins, Commemorative Medals, Autographs and Documents - e-Auction
Lot: 767

Custer, George Armstrong. U.S. army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War and the Indian Wars; killed with all his men at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Group of General Custer's ephemera kept by his wife Elizabeth Libbie" Bacon Custer. 1) Invitation from Mr & Mrs. Wallack, 13 West 30th St to General and Mrs. Custer with envelope; 2) Glossy ticket-card for the Presidential Train, Buffalo to Cleveland for "His Excellency Andrew Johnson President of the United States"; 3) Invitation - ticket for the Seventh Cavalry's Annual Ball, Fort Leavenworth; 4) Envelope addressed to General Custer, Palmer House Hotel Chicago, postmarked from Louisville, KY with Louisville Hotel ad on back; 5) Printed horse racing purse information August 1871 with penciled name "Mr Edwin Thorne 76 Gold St NY" and inked race stats headed "1872" in Custer's hand; 6) Pair of whimsical cards in color - three boys in dragoon and hussar uniforms talking to girl penned in ink "Genl Custer" and three boys on horseback jumping over fence penned in ink "Mrs. Cramer" (?). Very Good to Fine.

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