At a Freeman’s & Hindman auction in the United States, a pair of blood-stained leather gloves once owned by the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, were sold for $1.52 million, according to the Associated Press.
Organizers reported that a total of 144 items related to Lincoln’s life and death were put up for sale, bringing in a combined total of $7.9 million. The most expensive lots were the gloves, which had been in Lincoln’s pocket on the night of his assassination, and one of two blood-soaked handkerchiefs he carried — the latter sold for $826,000.
Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The assassin was actor John Wilkes Booth, a staunch supporter of the Confederacy, which opposed the abolition of slavery.
