Exquisitely crafted, this beautiful glass coaster features a depiction of Abraham Lincoln as seen in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. With a solemn expression and piercing eyes that seem to follow you as you move the coaster around, it makes a striking piece.

The polished artisan glass is hand-screened and each individual coaster's coloration is unique, as the glass is marbled from clear to milky white.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, formally proclaiming the freedom of all slaves held in areas still in revolt. The Proclamation invited black men to join the Union Army and Navy, resulting in the enlistment of approximately 200,000 freed slaves and free black people before the war's end.

The original handwritten Emancipation Proclamation and many other letters, photographs, and Lincoln records are preserved, protected, and held in trust by the National Archives.