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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 66925, member: 44"]Pat, the original of yours was taken on 8 Nov. 1863 by Alexander Gardner:</p><p><a href="https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect Scantic is a copy of the same, but edited to remove the hair tuft, lines, wrinkles and has a grainier look that makes him look younger. As to his eyes, on zooming in themn in both pictures their angle is not that different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pat, the following link has several Lincoln posters with your pic including some posters like yours, I think. Love the posters with the cat sitting in his lap!</p><p><a href="http://www.zazzle.com/abraham+lincoln+posters" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.zazzle.com/abraham+lincoln+posters" rel="nofollow">http://www.zazzle.com/abraham+lincoln+posters</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 66925, member: 44"]Pat, the original of yours was taken on 8 Nov. 1863 by Alexander Gardner: [URL]https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863.jpg[/URL] I suspect Scantic is a copy of the same, but edited to remove the hair tuft, lines, wrinkles and has a grainier look that makes him look younger. As to his eyes, on zooming in themn in both pictures their angle is not that different. Pat, the following link has several Lincoln posters with your pic including some posters like yours, I think. Love the posters with the cat sitting in his lap! [URL]http://www.zazzle.com/abraham+lincoln+posters[/URL][/QUOTE]
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