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Lincoln's Opera Glasses
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RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses
(09-28-2018, 03:58 PM)L Verge Wrote:
(09-28-2018, 11:16 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!).
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Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by Thomas Kearney - 09-28-2018, 11:16 AM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by L Verge - 09-28-2018, 03:58 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by L Verge - 09-28-2018, 05:05 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by Eva Elisabeth - 09-28-2018, 05:58 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by RJNorton - 09-28-2018, 06:04 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by L Verge - 09-28-2018, 08:11 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by Eva Elisabeth - 09-29-2018, 06:55 AM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by Dennis Urban - 10-02-2018, 05:06 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by Gene C - 10-02-2018, 06:33 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by Warren - 10-05-2018, 02:20 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by Jim Garrett - 10-08-2018, 07:43 PM
RE: Lincoln's Opera Glasses - by Warren - 10-09-2018, 03:54 PM

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