{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33166,"auction_id":41,"set_id":66,"lot_number":"86","artist":"An Extremely Significant and Exceedingly Rare Lett","title":null,"starting_price":60000,"signed_dated":"Dated May 8, 1897","medium":"Two pages on graph-paper, written in the hand of P","size":"a.) 9”x 6 1/4” (23 cm x 16 cm) b.) 19 1/2”x 20 1/2","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance: From the collection of noted scholar D","exhibited":null,"literature":"Literature: Buhay at Mga Sinulat ni Emilio Jacinto","write_up":"Translated as follows :  May 8, 1897  Hon. Emilio Jacinto If you have not received the letter I sent you on the 7th instant, I have requested therein that I be given 50 “fuerza” or Remington (rifles), 10 barrels of powder, and “maestranza” for the manufacture of slugs (kapsula), and kindly have them delivered to me by bearer hereof, as I will be needing them at the earliest possible time. Please do not fail to do so, I’ll be informing you soon about our whereabouts.  Accept the warm embrace of a true friend and devoted brother, P.R. Maitim  Paciano Rizal (1850 - 1930) was the older (and only) brother of our foremost hero, José. A friend of the activist priest Padre Burgos, he was also a member of the Propaganda Movement, soliciting subscriptions for Marcelo H. del Pilar’s newspaper Diario de Manila. Eleven years older then José, he was confidante and a devoted ‘second father’, probably instrumental in sending José away for his safety, first to the Ateneo de Manila after the brutal execution of GomBurZa and later to distant Spain.  Upon Rizal’s death, Paciano was said to have been imprisoned and tortured to force him to implicate his brother in the Katipunan and the outbreak of the Revolution. Paciano steadfastly refused.   He would, however, take up arms and join the revolutionary army after Rizal’s death. Paciano Rizal would become an effective commander of the Laguna, the scourge of the Spanish forces, who surrendered to him in significant numbers.  This letter is one of two known to have existed (and to be documented by Don José P. Santos.)  It was also written against the backdrop of the critical change of power from the Supremo Andres Bonifacio to Emilio Aguinaldo.  It furthermore gives important insight into the relationships within the Revolutionary forces, particularly between Paciano and Andres Bonifacio’s best friend and trusted ally, Emilio Jacinto. The letter is also an interesting vignette into the forces who waged an increasingly victorious war against the Spanish.  The following are notes from the Katipunan scholar, Jim Richardson: “This letter is dated on May 8. Bonifacio has been tried and sentenced to death, but not yet shot.   “Paciano Rizal is presumably in Laguna, and may not have heard the latest news from Cavite. He may be writing to Jacinto rather than Aguinaldo because he thinks either (a) that he has a better chance of getting guns etc from Jacinto than he does from Aguinaldo; or (b) that Jacinto has some kind of military jurisdiction over Laguna, and is therefore the appropriate person to contact.  “Paciano Rizal’s letter refers to another he had sent the previous day, May 7, which José P. Santos also included in his book “Buhay at mga sinulat ni Emilio Jacinto”. That letter addresses Jacinto as “Pangulong Digma,” which is a title I’ve not seen elsewhere. The position to which Bonifacio appointed Jacinto in the April 15 document, as one may remember, is “Pangulong hukbo sa dakong Hilagaan ng Maynila.” So, that form of address is a bit surprising. “I do not think Rizal’s May 7 and 8 letters, in themselves, are sufficient evidence to prove he was “taking Bonifacio’s side” in the post-Tejeros controversies. It’s possible he did, but we just don’t know.”   -Lisa Guerrero Nakpil","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":500000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":500000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":584000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":31121,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/41/66/lot/86.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":85,"next":87,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}