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Million dollar Lincoln cloth swatch for sale in Missouri town
Antiques dealer George St Pierre from Louisiana Missouri offers a swatch claimed to be from Abraham Lincoln's assassination coat for sale on GoAntiques.com with a $1 million bid. Experts cite provenance gaps while a Lincoln scholar says the piece could be authentic but evidence remains unsettled.
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Louisiana
George St. Pierre
Lincoln
Mississippi
GoAntiques.com
John Wilkes Booth
St. Pierre
Ford’s
Daniel Weinberg
Abraham Lincoln
Chicago
Weinberg
Quincy
Ill
Stephen Douglas
Abe Lincoln
Blackhawk
Ford
Frank Hebblethwaite
St. Pierre’s
Randy Bresee
University of Tennessee
Ford’s Theatre
Bresee
Kesler
National Parks Service
St. Pierre's
Brooks Brothers Company
James A. Finley