Autographs
Choice "Peter Cooper" Autograph Signature
PETER COOPER (1791-1883). American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, candidate for President of the United States who designed and built the First American Steam Locomotive the "Tom Thumb" and founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, New York City.
Autograph Signature, "Peter Cooper," on pale pink paper with blue lines, undated, 2.5" x 4.5," mounted on a slightly larger card, Choice Extremely Fine. This huge vanity signature measures 3.75" in length and 2" in height. Also included, another card on which a previous collector has written: "Peter Cooper - Philadelphia inventor & industrialist who built the 1st locomotive engine constructed on this continent in 1830, thus saving the B & O RR (Baltimore & Ohio Railroad) from bankruptcy." Some light pencil notations at the bottom indicating where and when this piece was obtained.