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Below is a recent realized price for a Mexican War Presentation sword. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:
Mexican War Presentation Sword. Sold for over $20,000.
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Abraham Lincoln Personally Owned and Worn Spectacles — With Provenance From Lincoln’s Family
Spectacles worn by Abraham Lincoln, photographed with the President in the portrait taken by Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C. in 1865 (O-116D in ”Lincoln in Photographs”). With provenance from Abraham Lincoln’s great grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. As his last direct descendant, Beckwith writes in an ”Affidavit and Deed of Gift”, signed and dated 16 August 1977 (a photocopy of which is included in the lot): ”I, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith of Washington, D.C., certify that among the contents of a trunk located and unopened until recently, and placed in the attic of Hildene, the estate of my grandfather Robert Todd Lincoln, Manchester, Vermont, by my grandmother Mary Harlan Lincoln (Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln), and the said contents being awarded to me by the Estate of my sister Mary Lincoln Beckwith, were found two pair of eye glasses which had belonged to my great grandfather President Abraham Lincoln, and so marked by my grandmother Mary Harlan Lincoln. I further give one pair of these eye glasses to Margaret Fristoe of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and one pair to James T. Hickey of Elkhart, Illinois.” Hickey was the Curator of the Lincoln Collection of the Illinois State Historical Library, now the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. The pair given to Hickey is still in the Library’s collection. Two years after gifting the glasses to Fristoe, Beckwith married her and upon her death the glasses were passed to her daughter from a prior relationship, Lenora Fristoe Hoverson. Her affidavit is also included. Also included is a signed letter from a board-certified optician attesting to the prescription of the glasses as +2.12, a match to Lincoln’s known prescription strength in the 2.00 range. An amazing piece of personal history from one of America’s greatest presidents. Sold for $84,422.
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Important artifact from the biggest political scandal in American history, the lock from the door in stairwell #2 leading to the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate Complex that was jimmied open in the early morning on 17 June 1972. Five would be burglars were arrested when a Watergate security guard alerted police of a possible break-in after growing suspicious of tape on stairwell latches, and then this jimmied lock leading directly into the DNC offices. The discovery of this tampered lock and the subsequent arrest of the five burglars set off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Lock is accompanied by two notarized letters of provenance: (1) Notarized letter from James Rednowers, the locksmith who replaced the lock on 18 June 1972, one day after the break-in, as requested by the Watergate Improvement Associates. In the letter, the lock is identified as coming from the infamous ”Stairway #2 to Suite 600, 2600 Virginia Avenue, Washington, D.C.”; (2) Notarized letter signed by James Herrald, Superintendent of the Watergate Improvement Associates — whose Watergate business card is included with the letter — stating that the lock was given to him by locksmith James Rednowers. Russwinn lock set includes inner and outer knobs, original key and latch, all mounted to a wood display measuring 11.75″ high x 9.5″ wide x 7″ deep. Lock set measures 3.25″ high x 5″ wide by 7.25″ deep. An incredibly visceral piece, giving a glimpse into the events of 17 June 1972, which would ignite a political maelstrom leading to obstruction of justice charges against a sitting U.S. President, and his subsequent resignation. Sold for $62,500.
Superb Abraham Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed as President, Regarding Possible War Profiteering During the Civil War — “…I expected that when…the price of a…gun was fixed, it would stand…”
Abraham Lincoln autograph letter signed as President with exceptional content regarding arms requisitions, dated 23 April 1862 during the early years of the Civil War as the government’s military expenditures were dramatically increasing. Lincoln’s legal instincts are sharp here, as he analyzes a contract for the purchase of guns, putting a contractor on notice that varying prices will be challenged, and making sure that the government doesn’t fall victim to war profiteering or fraud. Sold for $20,124.
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