Seed Pearl Necklace and Bracelets

[James]

Anita - there was nothing in your post that required a serious response. It was beating a dead horse for no apparent reason. You missed the entire point. I mentioned earlier that we all don't communicate on the same wavelength. I had no idea just how understated that comment was.
I believe I made it crystal clear to in a reply to Roger and Steve that there was no accompanying documentation or provenance. There is nothing ambiguous about that statement. The visual evidence contained in the image points to March 4th as the date for this sitting. Some of this visual and circumstantial evidence has been laid out for all to see, some of it hasn't. It involves putting many pieces of a puzzle together to arrive at a clear picture. The Lincoln community has made it clear that they have no interest in this exercise. Judging from the commentary thus far on this forum, I truly believe they are incapable of the objective reasoning necessary to authenticate a national treasure. They simply dig their heels in and refuse to budge. They pick and choose which timeline fits their narrative and run with it.
The events of February 20 1861 that take place in New York City are well documented in the publication, The Lincoln Log, and leave no possibility for Abe to have obtained the seed pearl jewelry. Tiffany's own records indicate an April 1862 purchase date. Numerous newspapers that covered and reported on the event state that Mary did not wear the seed pearl jewelry to the ball. It's well documented that Mary did wear the lace collar, which would also mean she didn't not wear the seed pearl jewelry. Yet the Lincoln community refuses to budge in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
The continue to insist that the couple are of comparative height, which is clearly not the case to any reasonable individual with a pair of eyes.
If not for someone posting the head shot of Mary showing the scar on her forehead, they would continue to push back on even that easily discernible fact.
They refuse to even consider the possibility that Abe's right side was "compromised", in large part because they don't want his right side to be compromised.
They completely disregard the countless unique identifying scars and characteristics, along with the absence of a single scar or characteristic foreign to Abe or Mary, because they just don't think the Lincolns look the way they think they should.
They put forth their theories and opinions until, one by one, they are destroyed by factual evidence. They then retreat to the only safe shelter they have left, a sanctuary that cannot be penetrated by reason or facts; .... "it doesn't look like them".
If the Lincoln community were to try their case in a court of law, they'd be held in contempt and disbarred.
And you want MORE from me? I think it's about time the Lincoln community put a little skin in the game. I've been all in from day one. I don't backtrack because I've done my homework and I know what I'm talking about.