Celebrated American performer (1860-1926) whose legendary prowess as a markswoman earned her worldwide renown. Scarce ink signature, "Congratulations, Annie Oakley," on an off-white 5 x 6.5 sheet of stationery from the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst, North Carolina, with remarkable 1919 Lincoln wheat penny shot by Oakley tied to the sheet with twine. The penny has been bent by a small-caliber bullet impact on its left edge. The crater still has a trace of lead and is consistent with that caused by a .22 bullet, the caliber that Oakley used in her performances. Includes a brief pencil note in an unknown hand, "Shot by Annie Oakley, Pinehurst, about 1920." Oakley was hired by the Carolina Hotel (now the Pinehurst Resort) to teach and demonstrate shooting in the mid-1910s. Oakley was somewhere in her late fifties to early sixties when she shot this penny, but was still able to hit remarkably small targets like this. Items signed by Oakley are extremely rare, and the targets that she shot at in her performances are even rarer; many were shattered and destroyed when she shot them. In fine condition.
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