Lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair taken during his postmortem examination sells at auction for $81,250.
The thick lock of hair approximately two inches long was sold at an auction that ended on Saturday along with a blood-stained telegram about his assassination at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 to an undisclosed buyer, according to RR Auction of Boston.
According to the auction house, the lock of hair was presented to Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd, a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln.“The hair is mounted to an official War Department manuscript telegram sent to Dr. Todd by George H. Kinnear, his assistant in the Post Office at Lexington, Kentucky, received in Washington at 11 PM on April 14, 1865,” RR Auction said in the description of the item.
“A typed caption prepared by Dr. Todd's son reads, in part: ‘The above telegram … arrived in Washington a few minutes after Abraham Lincoln was shot. Next day, at the postmortem, when a lock of hair, clipped from near the President's left temple, was given to Dr. Todd -- finding no other paper in his pocket -- he wrapped the lock, stained with blood or brain fluid, in this telegram and hastily wrote on it in pencil: 'Hair of A. Lincoln.
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