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Pen used by Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation

Pen used by Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation Pen
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Pen by Blanzy Poure & Cie, Paris and B. & P. Lawrence, New York, mid-19th century

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President Lincoln presented the pen to abolitionist George Livermore, through Senator Charles Sumner, in January 1863.  Col. William R. Livermore gave it to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1911.