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Lincoln Quill Comes to Springfield
(IRN)-It's almost certain Abraham Lincoln put a John Hancock on things with an artifact on display in May at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

A quill pen found in his White House desk right after his assassination is part of the Taper Collection, a large private collection the ALPLM has acquired from California collector Louise Taper.

The pen, which museum spokesman Dave Blanchette describes as "low-tech" even for that day, is the sort Lincoln preferred, and the kind he used to teach himself to write. It also helps highlight a fund drive by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation.

The quill pen is in the museum's Treasures Gallery throughout May.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
04 30 11 by Newsroom
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