From the 2015 PBS Antiques Roadshow
Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave this appraisal to a woman on the popular PBS appraisal show in Tucson, Arizona. He estimated the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Pardon to Charles Villiers was worthy between $12,00 and $15,000.
It read:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas, it appears that at the March Term, 1861, of the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, one Charles de Villier was indicted and convicted for obtaining goods under false pretences [six], and it was by the said Court sentenced to be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for the period of eighteen months;
And whereas, the said Charles de Villier has now served out more than six months of his said term of imprisonment, and it appears from the certificate of the Deputy Warden of the Penitentiary that "he has been uniformly obedient and faithful to every duty" in the institution.
More. --Old Secesh
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