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[J. Beckert]

One more famous furniture question.
No Googling again. For you heathens that do that sort of thing.....

In 1929, fed up with the Gov't's "because we can attitude" and using as a precedent the suit against the Feds filed by the heirs of Jefferson Davis' that petitioned for the return of his property, Harry Clay Ford's widow Blanche appealed to the Gov't for the return of the rocker Lincoln was seated in when he was shot. She won and put the chair up for auction. It was purchased by antique dealer Israel Sacks, who offered it to Henry Ford. (No relation the the Ford's Theater Fords). Ford bought it, but for how much?