SUPER RARE “FREE FRANK” ENVELOPE ENTIRELY IN DAVY CROCKET’S HAND, ADDRESSED TO THE PUBLISHERS OF HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
CROCKETT, David (1786-1836). Autograph free frank (“Free D. Crockett”) on envelope of an addressed in Crockett’s hand to “Messrs E. L. Cary & A. Hart Philadelphia Penn,” 105 x 157mm., circular “City of Washington Dec 22, .” postmark.
Cary & Hart were the publishers of Crockett’s Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, which by 1834 had gone through several editions.
Any document signed by Crockett are quite scarce. David “Davy” Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier”. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo.