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"You are respectfully invited to witness the execution of Charles J. Guiteau"
Rare original partly-printed invitation card for the execution of assassin Charles Guiteau, who shot President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., on the morning of Saturday, July 2, 1881. Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey 79 days later on September 19, 1881.
The card, 4.75 x 3, issued to “Saml G. Kinsley” by the Wardens’ Office U.S. Jail of Washington, D.C., reads: “You are respectfully invited to witness the execution of Charles J. Guiteau, at this jail Friday, June 30th, 1882, between the hours of 12 M., and 2 o’clock P.M.”
Signed below in ink by Warden John S. Crocker, and the reverse annotated, “No Transferable, W.O.C.”
In fine condition.
We can only find a handful of such invites to have reached the market, with this one is the apparent finest condition of all.
"You are respectfully invited to witness the execution of Charles J. Guiteau"
Rare original partly-printed invitation card for the execution of assassin Charles Guiteau, who shot President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., on the morning of Saturday, July 2, 1881. Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey 79 days later on September 19, 1881.
The card, 4.75 x 3, issued to “Saml G. Kinsley” by the Wardens’ Office U.S. Jail of Washington, D.C., reads: “You are respectfully invited to witness the execution of Charles J. Guiteau, at this jail Friday, June 30th, 1882, between the hours of 12 M., and 2 o’clock P.M.”
Signed below in ink by Warden John S. Crocker, and the reverse annotated, “No Transferable, W.O.C.”
In fine condition.
We can only find a handful of such invites to have reached the market, with this one is the apparent finest condition of all.