The price was more than twice the amount expected
The tickets were for prime front-row seats on the second level – 41 and 42 D in the theater’s dress circle the night of April 14, 1865. The show featured British actress Laura Keene in the comedy “Our American Cousin.”
The original owners of the tickets are unknown. The seller of the tickets Saturday was a manuscript collector from Southern California, who asked to be anonymous, RR Auction said. That person had purchased them at an auction in 2002 for $83,650.Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RR Auction, would say only that the buyer is one of the world’s top collectors of Americana.Article contentAlso sold with the tickets was the envelope in which they once were enclosed.
Lincoln was murdered at the theater that night by actor John Wilkes Booth, who was later captured and killed. The president died the next morning in a boardinghouse across the street from the theater.A rare first edition book signed by Lincoln that contained his 1858 debates with U.S. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas sold for $593,750.
And a Riggs bank check for $5 that Lincoln made out to his African American valet William Johnson went for $100,000.
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