Today, November 19th...

.... in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered what may be the most famous speech in American history - his Gettysburg Address.

And, despite President Lincoln not yet having completed his first term, Mrs. Lincoln was already thinking ahead to a china for the second term of her husband's presidency. Eventually, she would purchase the buff bordered china shown at right from the Philadelphia firm of J.L. Kerr. Two months after this china would arrive, President Lincoln would fall dead to bullet from the gun of John Wilkes Booth.

To learn more about Woodmere's reproduction of the Lincoln Second-Term china, click on this link:

http://www.woodmerechina.com/amtreasures_items.cfm?item=43