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[RJNorton]

It's called a stock. I had never heard of this term and neither had my wife. I looked it up, and a stock was a single band worn around the neck with the ends tied up in a bowlike configuration. Lincoln paid $1.25 for the one in the picture I posted, and he was wearing it at Ford's Theatre.

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