Lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair sells for more than $110,000. 9News
A lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair along with a blood-stained telegram about his 1865 assassination have been sold at auction for more than $110,000.No information about the buyer was disclosed.The roughly five-centimetre-long lock of hair was removed during Mr Lincoln's post-mortem examination after he was fatally shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth.
It was presented to Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd, a Kentucky postmaster and a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln, the 16th president's widow, according to RR Auction. Dr. Todd was present when Mr Lincoln's body was examined.The hair is mounted on an official War Department telegram sent to Dr. Todd by George Kinnear, his assistant in the Lexington, Kentucky, post office. The telegram was received in Washington at 11 p.m. on April 14, 1865.
RR Auction vouched for the authenticity of the lock and telegram. Dr. Todd's son, James Todd, wrote in a 1945 letter that the clipping of hair "has remained entirely in the custody of our family since that time". It last was sold in 1999, the auction house said.
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