ALPLM Cuts Ties With Library Foundation By SEAN CRAWFORD • APR 1, 2021

[David Lockmiller]

(11-04-2022 11:54 AM)Gene C Wrote:  Interesting to note that according to the article from the Chicago Sun Times, "the foundation has revealed that it had the money to pay off the remaining debt on the collection"

So, what happened to the money, and has any gov't agency investigated this?

I think that the basic issue is whether the stovepipe hat is worth either $1 or $8,000,000?

Assuming that one dollar was the fair value, who did the eight million dollar estimate and did a major portion of the inflated value end up in their pockets?

This is an issue for the courts to decide on the evidence.

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(11-04-2022 12:47 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  

(11-04-2022 11:54 AM)Gene C Wrote:  Interesting to note that according to the article from the Chicago Sun Times, "the foundation has revealed that it had the money to pay off the remaining debt on the collection"

So, what happened to the money, and has any gov't agency investigated this?

I think that the basic issue is whether the stovepipe hat is worth either $1 or $8,000,000?

Assuming that one dollar was the fair value, who did the eight million dollar estimate and did a major portion of the inflated value end up in their pockets?

This is an issue for the courts to decide on the evidence.

Roger posted an entry in September, 2014 - News and Announcements / Abraham Lincoln's Stovepipe Hat, Etc. Post #1

Washington Post - Artifacts under the lights for documentary marking anniversary of Lincoln’s murder

As he entered the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln removed his hat and put it down. It was found there in the hours after the assassination, and is now one of the Smithsonian’s most cherished objects.

The single piece of evidence needed to discredit the stovepipe hat in question is the precise hat size of the proven President Lincoln stovepipe hat "now one of the Smithsonian’s most cherished objects."