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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mmarco102, post: 431753, member: 8289&quot;]Alas, I am not putting to much faith in that prospect. The original looks more like it came from the Civil War, as mine looks like it went through the Civil War. I can tell you that my $1 investment is not printed via todays printing machines or copiers. Looking through a micro loupe you can see the ink is a solid aplication and the actual paper fibers possibly from that era, so I am thinking more of an ink press or darn good forgery. Handwriting for the most parts have extremely little variations as well as the spacing. My piece also looks as though the writing was applied over the already folded creases. Both letters are folded differently and mine looks to be the more modern way, although I dont know what the norm of the day was. It’s said that many museum pieces are copies as they don’t want originals to be in any peril around the public. So I might have a billion to one chance <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />. Hahaha</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok, so that all said, riddle me this. Lincoln was a well educated lawyer, so why in the Mighigan library original does it read:</p><p><br /></p><p>“I regret the necessity of saying I <b><i><u>hays</u></i></b> no daughters I <b><i><u>have</u></i></b> three sons.”</p><p><br /></p><p>am I missing something? Either way this in no means legitimizes mine. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0903/detail/letter03.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0903/detail/letter03.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0903/detail/letter03.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]151208[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]151209[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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