Minggu, 18 September 2011

Hope of Lee image’s buyer: The price will rise again

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Richard Schaffer was only looking for a violin this month when he stumbled on a Civil War photograph up for auction on the Goodwill Industries Web site.

It was an elegant image of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in his uniform, with a white beard, furrowed brow and circles of fatigue under his eyes.

Schaffer, a veteran collector who pilots a D.C. fireboat and runs a restaurant in Harpers Ferry, had never seen the image before. Was this a lost photo of Lee? Could it be a blockbuster discovery, a treasure among odds and ends?

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Zachary A. Goldfarb 19 Sep, 2011


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