Abraham Lincoln Collectors Plate Gettysburg Address Mort Künstler 1986 #108B5‎

COMPANY: Edwin M. Knowles China Company ITEM: THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS —- 1st issue in series PLATE NUMBER: 13718D ARTIST: Mort Künstler YEAR: 1986 MATERIAL: Fine China COLLECTION: Lincoln, Man **The Gettysburg Address - Delivered November 19, 1863 Lincoln planned to make a short speech t on the famous battlefield, just four months after the great battle. His words are memorized - still, I hope - by students studying American history - "...we highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." MINT