FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Autograph endorsement signed ("B. Franklin") as President of Pennsylvania, [Philadelphia,] 26 February 1787.

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Lot 484 | FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Autograph endorsement signed ("B. Franklin") as President of Pennsylvania, [Philadelphia,] 26 February 1787.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Autograph endorsement signed ("B. Franklin") as President of Pennsylvania, [Philadelphia,] 26 February 1787.



One page, 85 x 190mm (visible) accomplished on the verso of a manuscript document fragment concerning an unspecified bankruptcy action.



[Framed with several additional pieces including:] [Abbé Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non after Jean Baptiste Le Prince], Le Docteur Francklin Couronneé par la Liberté. Aquatint (235 x 190 mm) * D. Benjamin Franklin, et vita inter Americanos acta, et magnis electricitatis periculis clarus. Engraved by Johann Elias Haid (1780) after Charles-Nicholas Cohcin. Mezzotint (225 x 140mm) * A note for three pence in Pennsylvania currency, per an act of 18 June 1764. Printed by Franklin and Hall, [1764]. Part of a emission of £55,000 printed by Franklin and Hall in denominations ranging from 3d to 20s (See Miller, 820) * Benjamin Franklin Natus Boston XVII Jan MDCCVI [obverse] Eripuit Coelo Fulmen Sceptrum Que Tyrannis (reverse) Bronze medal by Augustin Dupre, 1786. 43mm diam.





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Probably acquired by Benjamin Franklin Pepper (1879-1918), Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin

Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Pepper, née Rebecca Thomson Willing (1882-1955), Ballygarth, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, wife

B. Franklin Pepper (1930-2011), Alexandria, Virginia, grandson

Benjamin Franklin Pepper, Jr. and Holly (Pepper) White, children and current owners
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