Eugene Field II (1887–1944[1]), the son of the poet Eugene Field, forged autographs in old books and other items. Among others, Field forged the signatures of his father, the poets Bret Harte[2] and Rudyard Kipling, the US presidents Abraham Lincoln[1] and Theodore Roosevelt,[3] and humorist Mark Twain.[4]
Sickles and Field copied Abraham Lincoln's style of signature onto old documents, which they sold as genuine.
While selling off his famous father's library, Field came into contact with Harry Dayton Sickles, an autograph dealer and rare book seller in Chicago.[5][3] In the 1930s, Sickles and Field produced the Coachman Forgeries.[1][3] At this time, they forged Lincoln's signature onto genuine older books, pamphlets, maps, sheet music, and other documents and claimed that the objects had belonged to Lincoln and had been given to William P. Brown by Lincoln's widow.[5] Brown had been briefly popular in the US national news in 1931 for claiming to have been the coachman for Mary Todd Lincoln sometime after Lincoln's 1865 assassination and before her death in 1882. Brown signed witnessed statements that the articles had previously belonged to Lincoln's widow.[3] Sickles and Field would then forge fake signatures on the older books and sell them to unsuspecting collectors.[3] Some of the forgeries are obvious upon inspection; for example, two of them are on documents published after Lincoln's death.[5] The forgeries are now considered collectables, though without the high value that could be expected for genuine signatures.[3] For example, in 2005, one such forgery was expected to sell for US$300 to $500.[6]
^ abcHarmless to Homicidal: A Collection of Hoaxes and Literary Forgeries. University of Scranton Library. 2007. pp. 20–21.
^Nickell, Joe (2021-05-11). Detecting Forgery: Forensic Investigation of Documents. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-8271-1.
^ abcdefGoodman, Gary (2021-12-07). The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 76–78. ISBN 978-1-4529-6691-5.
^Mac Donnell, Kevin (2013-05-13). LeMaster, J. R.; Wilson, James D. (eds.). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-88128-3.
^ abcThe Bollinger Lincoln Lectures: Addresses Given at the Dedication of the Lincoln Library. State University of Iowa Libraries, Bollinger Lincoln Foundation. 1953. pp. 27–32.
^Press, Ivy (August 2005). HCAA Long Beach Signature Auction Catalog #386. Heritage Capital Corporation. ISBN 978-1-932899-91-7.
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