This lot consists of two shadowboxes, one containing 2″ section of rope: “cut from the rope from which Wirz was hung at the old Capital Prison in Washington, DC immediately after the execution by George N. Edmunds” and also a 26″ long piece of green and white wool necktie: “portion of neck-tie worn by Wirz, the keeper of Andersonville Prison, when he died”. These two items were originally retained in a paper wrapper dated Washington, July 18, 1887, compliments of James Edmunds given to US Senator Richard Pettigrew, South Dakota’s first Senator. Second frame contains a clipped signature of Wirz mounted beneath 7-1/2″ x 10-1/2″ illustrated broadside advertising the 1865 publication THE DEMON OF ANDERSONVILLE or the TRIAL OF WIRZ For the CRUEL TREATMENT AND BRUTAL MURDER OF HELPLESS UNION PRISONERS IN HIS HANDS: THE MOST HIGHLY EXCITING AND INTERESTING TRIAL OF THE PRESENT CENTURY, HIS LIFE AND EXECUTION… Large file of archival material including service records and trial transcripts included with lot. SIZE: Large shadowbox: 16″ x 17″. Frame: 16-1/4″ x 13-1/4″. PROVENANCE: The Estate of Morris Racker. CONDITION: Rope sample is very good and nicely mounted on blackened board. Necktie sample shows insect damage and some reductions and is held by tacking stitches onto canvas backing in shadow box. 6-1/2″ x 4″ inscribed wrapper is glued to mounting board and is cracked at central fold appears brittle, foxed and stained. The rare Wirz signature appears very good as exposed in a 1-3/4″ x 3/4″ window cut in mat. It is not known how it is mounted, but ink is dark. The framed broadside has numerous reductions, especially at bottom and right side, effecting some text. We could find no other examples noted of this rare advertising broadside. 51956-1 (3,000-5,000)