Pen made from a rail split by Abraham Lincoln, other end appears to be a letter opener, wood, length 8 1/4 inches. The nib marked Wilmarth & Brother." Included is a cabinet card of Abraham Lincoln. Provenance: From the estate of Alexander Bullock, Governor of Massachusetts. (Note: Alexander Bullock graduated Amerherst College in 1836 and entered Harvard Law School. He worked for the law firm of Emory Washburn in Worcester, Massachsetts. He was in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a State Senator. He was mayor of Worcester in 1859. He was elected Governor of Massachusetts from 1866-1868. He was also president of State Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Worcester County Institute for Savings. He was also a writer for the Aegis newspaper. There are business connections between the paper companies of Fitchburg, Massachusetts and the William Mason train works that had also produced machinery for the paper mills. It is possible the Bullock's either through the insurance business and/or banking businesses had interests in the trains that William Mason produced and Alexander Bullock's cousins were in the railroad and banking business in various states including Ohio that may have supported Abraham Lincoln with campaign funds and trains. Specifically Alexander Bullock's cousins Calvin Bullock, Barnet Ellis Bullock and James Frederick "Fred" Bullock who worked for railroad firms in Ohio that William Mason supplies the trains Phantom & Nymph to.)