TEMPO.CO, Dallas - A lock of the late U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's hair sells for US $25,000 or about Rp312,650,000, as reported by Antara News.
The hair was taken by Surgeon General Joseph Barnes shortly after Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
The lock of hair was among the collection of history buff Donald Dow, who owned one of the best Lincoln memorabilia collections that truly exist, according to Heritage Auction officials.
According to Reuters, the identities of buyers were unknown.
Aside from Lincoln’s lock of hair, other items auctioned included a letter to a friend written and signed by Booth in 1861, which sold for $30,000 on Saturday, January 24, 2015. Two separate eyewitness account of the assassination went for $27,500 and $14,375.
An arrest warrant for Booth sold for $21,250, while a framed compilation of autographs by Lincoln, Booth and Boston Corbett, and an officer who shot Booth sold for $30,000.
There was also an item that went unbought, it was a fragment of a letter Lincoln wrote to a Baltimore attorney in 1862, containing rare information that the Civil War was not going well for the north.
Dow is the owner of Fort Worth art gallery in Texas, who collects Lincoln’s memorabilia for 50 years beginning 1963, said Donald Dow’s son, Greg Dow. Donald died in 2009.
"I want other collectors to have a chance to enjoy it," said Greg Dow.
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