Lincoln's Opera Glasses

[L Verge]

(09-28-2018 02:58 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(09-28-2018 10:16 AM)Thomas Kearney Wrote:  M.S. Rau Antiques in New Orleans has acquired a set of opera glasses believed to have been dropped by Abraham Lincoln as he was shot on April 14th, 1865. The gallery in the French Quarter is asking for $795,000 for this relic of Lincolniana.

Link to the article:

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/natio...65655.html

I guess the ALPLM folks won't be interested... and, I agree with the NPS spokesperson in 2011 (Gloria Swift??).

Go here for a nice write-up from 2012: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/16363 And I guessed right - the later NPS spokesperson with doubts was Gloria Swift (a great historian!).