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Auction Offers Lincoln’s Hair and Other Presidential Oddities
The auction feeds a thriving market for private collectors. Among the items: photographs, a lottery ticket signed by Washington, a Kennedy sweater and a check from Donald J. Trump.
Locks of hair from the heads of the first United States president, George Washington, right, and his wife, Martha, left.Credit.Nikki Brickett/RR Auction, via Associated Press
Published Feb. 15, 2021Updated Feb. 16, 2021
Robert Russell Crans Jr. is storing a bounty of items once owned and touched by President Abraham Lincoln and his family that represent a time in American history and politics most can only read about in history books. ....

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