BOSTON — Two tickets from the front-row balcony of Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 — the night time President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Sales space — bought at public sale for $262,500, in accordance with a Boston-based public sale home.
Tickets are date stamped “Ford’s Theater, April 14, 1865, tonight solely.” It’s printed on the left facet “Ford’s Theater, Friday, Costume Circle!” It’s stuffed in pencil with the part (“D”) and seat numbers “41” and “42,” in accordance with RR Auctions.
The handwritten seating assignments and round stamp dated April 14 match these on different identified unique tickets, together with a used ticket stub in Harvard College’s Houghton Library assortment, public sale officers mentioned.
The Harvard stub, consisting of solely the left half of the ticket, is the one different Ford’s Theater ticket used for April 14 that’s identified to nonetheless exist, with comparable seat assignments stuffed in in pencil and a stamp just like that discovered on tickets bought at public sale. Off Saturday.
Simply after 10 p.m., through the third act of “Our American Cousin,” Sales space entered the presidential field on the theater in Washington, D.C., and shot Lincoln lifeless.
As Lincoln fell ahead in his seat, Sales space jumped onto the stage and escaped out the again door. A physician examined the stricken president and took him throughout the road to the Petersen house, the place he died early the subsequent morning. Sales space evaded seize for 12 days however was ultimately tracked down on a Virginia farm and shot.
Additionally bought at public sale on Saturday was the primary copy of the Lincoln-Douglas debates signed by Lincoln, which bought for about $594,000.