TWAIN, MARK. Signature, on a blank breakfast menu from the Norddeutscher Lloyd, with a humorous note on verso (heavily faded and barely legible) that

TWAIN, MARK. Signature, on a blank breakfast menu from the Norddeutscher Lloyd, with a humorous note on verso (heavily faded and barely legible) that the bearer has made a contribution to the Seaman's Fund according to the decree of an Admiralty Court aboard the Steamer Zhan who have found Mark Twain guilty of "inordinate and unscientific lying." Approximately 8 1/2x4 1/2 inches; chipped at edges, folds; framed. At sea, 12 July no year (but 1890s)