{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33164,"auction_id":41,"set_id":66,"lot_number":"85","artist":"The Exceedingly Important and Exceedingly Rare Let","title":null,"starting_price":60000,"signed_dated":"Dated “Macati”, 30 de Abril (30 April) 1898 Signed","medium":"Two pages, on the letterhead “Ejercito Libertador,","size":"a.) 3 1/4”x 6 1/4” (8 cm x 16 cm) b.) 8 1/2”x 6 1/","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance: From the collection of the noted schol","exhibited":null,"literature":"Literature: Buhay at Mga Sinulat ni Emilio Jacinto","write_up":"“Politics in the time of revolution is a murky business,” remarked the noted Katipunan scholar Jim Richardson. Nowhere was this more true than in the time of the Philippine Revolution.  Reversals of fortune were common happenstance: Andres Bonifacio arrived in Cavite as the proud founder of the Katipunan. In a matter of four months,he would be removed as ‘Supremo’ and Aguinaldo would take his place, winning by “a landslide” at the controversial Tejeros Convention on March 22, 1897.   Bonifacio would launch his own“counter-coup” against Aguinaldo in April, persuading Mariano Trias (who had been elected vice-president at Tejeros), Artemio Ricarte (elected as captain general at Tejeros) and Aguinaldo’s two most senior generals, Mariano Noriel and Pio del Pilar to sign the “Naik Military Agreement,” which sought to unify the armies of the revolution under Del Pilar’s command.   Aguinaldo would later write in his now-notorious confession — about the events leading to the execution of Bonifacio — that Pio del Pilar was one of the men who counseled him to uphold the death sentence imposed on Bonifacio and his brother Procopio by the Council of War. Aguinaldo later admitted that it was he who took the final decision.   On the other hand, while del Pilar would discuss the events of Naic with others, he would not testify against Bonifacio at his trial.  Almost a year later after Bonifacio’s demise, we find Pio del Pilar informing Emilio Jacinto of his appointment as Governor of the province of Laguna, then as now, a strategically important position in the country.  In the same letter, del Pilar assigns Pedro Cortes as a colonel under the command of another notable man from Laguna, General Paciano Rizal, the older brother of our national hero, José Rizal.  Most important, It sets the final scene for the fortunes of the KKK and Andres Bonifacio’s closest friend and ally, Emilio Jacinto.  Interestingly, Don Exequiel Dizon would give an interview to the Sunday Times Magazine — Jacinto’s “only surviving cousin” at the time in 1972 — and he would tell the story of Emilio’s visit to Pio del Pilar in Makati to discuss his resignation from the army and a desire to go into private enterprise. Could this have been at the appointment set by the General to come visit him in his residence in that very same town?   It would be del Pilar, speaking as a successful entrepreneur, who would suggest that Jacinto go into, of all things, the meat business. The General even gave him a large starting order for his troops and helped him recruit other buyers in Makati.  Del PIlar’s letter, Richardson points out, was written the day before Admiral Dewey would steam into Manila Bay. No greater reversal of fortune could have taken place than the once victorious Philippine Revolution falling prey to the Americans.  By June 12, 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo would proclaim Philippine Independence in Kawit, Cavite — but it would be crushed by the Philippine-American War.   -Lisa Guerrero Nakpil","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":100000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":100000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":116800,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":31118,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/41/66/lot/85.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":84,"next":86,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}