Opera glasses believed to be Lincoln’s to be auctioned

[alp227]

Source: The Washington Post

The story goes that the opera glasses were found in the middle of Tenth Street after the mortally wounded Abraham Lincoln was carried from Ford’s Theatre to his deathbed in the Petersen House that April evening in 1865.

For generations, they were kept in the family of the Army officer who found them. In 1979 they sold at auction for a record $22,000. In 2002, they sold again, for $424,000, another record.

Next week, the black and gold theater glasses Lincoln is believed to have used the night of his murder are going back on the auction block, where experts believe they could fetch as much as $700,000.

The glasses are part of a June 17 Sotheby’s auction in New York that will include pricey Civil War items such as a handwritten letter from Robert E. Lee discussing his resignation from the U.S. Army and a flag from the famous Confederate warship CSS Alabama.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/opera-glasses-believed-to-be-lincolns-to-be-auctioned/2011/06/08/AGKSnXMH_singlePage.html

[William769]

1. The chair he sat in when he was assassinated is at Greenfield village in Dearborn Mich.

I always thought it creepy when I saw that chair.

[Journeyman]

2. "Why certainly, I'll be glad to sell you the axe that Abraham Lincoln used". . .

"Here it is: the axe used by Abraham Lincoln. The head's been replaced half a dozen times and the haft's been changed more times than I remember, but THIS is the axe that Abe Lincoln used!"

[Historic NY]

3. I want to sell the coin George Washington tossed across the Delaware River....

i will modestly take what ever I can get as I really believe its a perfect US coin........:think: