One of the rarest American historical documents, the wanted poster for Abraham Lincoln’s killers, is up for auction this week and is expected to sell for a record-high price.
The U.S. War Department poster seeking the arrest of John Wilkes Booth and co-conspirators John H. Surratt and David C. Harold is reportedly just one of five remaining from the original printing.In a 2021 auction, another copy sold for $275,000. Auctioneer Nate D. Sanders expects his sale to reach well above that when the hammer drops on April 27.
He added, “This poster viscerally brings you back to the days after he was killed — the shock of the murder, and the anxiety of the assassin still out there on the loose. It was an incredibly tense few days and this poster is one of the few mementos that have survived from it.”
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