^Lot 458 Daniel E. Sickles

Controversial and colorful American politician and military officer (1819–1914). After discovering his wife was having an affair, Sickles shot the man, the son of Francis Scott Key, and secured an acquittal with the a temporary insanity defense. During the Civil War, Sickles served as a general and lost his leg at the Battle of Gettysburg. Two certificates for five shares in the New York Electric Railway Car Association, 7.5 x 3.75, each signed in ink by trustee, “D. Sickles.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, light toning, and a small tear to the top edge of one certificate. Accompanied by an ALS, signed by “L. A. Gaff,” informing “Messrs. Stays & Greenbaum” that they have been “authorized to deduct from the interest to be collected by you of Genl. Sickles the sum of one hundred dollars.”