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The January 2013 Collector’s Series Sale<br />

571<br />

571 Roosevelt, Theodore and William Howard Taft Partly engraved Document Signed “Theodore Roosevelt”<br />

as President and “Wm. H. Taft” as Secretary of War, 1 page, folio, Washington, December 20,<br />

1904. They appoint Robert Bailey Hewitt a Second Lieutenant of Infantry, effective from the preceding<br />

June 15. With blue War Department seal at lower left with a few point missing and secretary’s docket<br />

at upper left. Minor vellum toning and edge crumples throughout, otherwise Very Fine. Also includes<br />

Hewitt’s Kansas City, Missouri Grammar School Promotion certificate, 1895; his US Military Cadet Appointment,<br />

signed by “Elihu Root,” 1900; and lastly, a Temporary Major of Infantry appointment, dated<br />

February 1918, signed by the Assistant Secretary of War, B[enedict] Crowell. Average Good-VF. (photo) Est. 600-800<br />

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