Presidential box: was it reassembled or reconstructed?

[Jim Garrett]

Recently, Heritage Auctions of Dallas Texas auctioned off the key to box 7. The provenance went back to about 1870 and originally came from the doorkeeper at Ford's (If memory serves me correctly). The pre-auction estimate was around $15,000. I went for over $400,000. This was in the same auction as many items from our good friend, Dr. Blaine Houmes, who we all miss greatly.