Vintage lithographic facsimile of the original engrossed and signed manuscript Act of Secession, carefully prepared from the original engrossed document in 1960 from The Ravenel Agency of Charleston on the anniversary of the 1860 signing. The document features facsimile signatures of D.F. Jamison, President of the Convention, and 169 delegates to the Secession Convention convened by Governor Pickens (even the ink blots which mar the original are carefully reproduced by the lithographers). The historic resolution, which revoked South Carolina's ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was largely the work of Robert Barnwell Rhett, editor of the Charleston Mercury which printed a well-known broadside announcement of the vote, the day it was taken, proclaiming "The Union is Dissolved!"). The resolution was passed unanimously at 1:15 p.m. on December 20. It was accompanied by a longer, legalistic Declaration of Causes maintaining that South Carolina was justified in secession as the Northern States had ceased to comply with their obligations under the Constitution, especially as concerned slavery and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. Shortly after adoption of the Ordinance. Measures 26"x21"x1/2". Weight 6 pds. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate

good, minor wear