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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Michelle Del Rey

Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained leather gloves are headed for auction

History buffs can soon bid on a pair of blood-stained gloves President Abraham Lincoln carried during his assassination in 1865 - (Freeman's)

American history buffs will soon be able to bid on a set of 140 rare artifacts that formerly belonged to President Abraham Lincoln.

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, 1865 at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., an original campaign torch, and his documents, will all be sold by Freeman's | Hindman in Chicago, Illinois, the president’s birth state.

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