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Posted By: Jay Miller

First, the Anson signature on the Stevens Cabinet was real and had a LOA from Mike Gutierrez. Unfortunately, as pointed out to me by Lew Lipset and later confirmed by Rob Lifson, the item appeared to be from the Spaulding Collection. I returned the cabinet to the dealer who sold it to me with that message. Rob, who has been working with the FBI on recovering items missing from that collection, was going to have the FBI contact this dealer to see if they could trace it back to its ultimate source. I asked Rob as to the status of this a while ago and he didn't know. Hopefully, it makes its way back to the N Y Public Library.