US EditionLincoln’s blood-stained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction
- A collection of valuable items linked to President Abraham Lincoln, including the blood-stained gloves he carried on the night he was assassinated, was sold at an auction in Chicago on Wednesday.
- The auction was conducted to settle the remaining balance of a 20-year-old loan taken out by the Lincoln Presidential Foundation to acquire the collection from a collector in California.
- Out of 144 items up for bid, 136 sold at Freeman's/Hindman auction, raising $7.9 million including roughly 28% buyers' premiums that cover administrative costs.
- Top-Selling items included the blood-stained gloves at $1.52 million, a handkerchief from April 14, 1865 for $826,000, and a Wanted poster of assassination suspects that sold for $762,500, far above its $120,000 estimate.
- Proceeds will retire the loan debt, and any excess funds will support ongoing care and public display of the Lincoln artifact collection.
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A pair of leather gloves worn by President Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theater on the night of his assassination fetched $1.5 million at auction this week, part of a trove of relics from his life and death that a debt-saddled presidential foundation had put on the block. One of two handkerchiefs that Lincoln had with him on that fateful date in American history, April 14, 1865, sold for $826,000, according to Freeman’s | Hindman in Chicago, the au…
Abraham Lincoln's Bloodied Gloves Were Also Auctioned, the Auction Brought in a Total of 160 Million
A total of 136 items related to former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln were auctioned off in Chicago. The most popular items were those he had with him the day he was assassinated. The auction was aimed at paying off the debts of the Lincoln Foundation.
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