The two tickets match the marks of what's thought to be the only other used ticket from the night John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
from that evening at Ford's. These tickets and the Harvard ticket all bear the faint print of a stamp reading:"Ford's Theatre, APR 14, 1865, This Night Only."
It's not known who the tickets belonged to, though an envelope containing them says they were complimentary. A seating chart for the theater shows that the two tickets – in the front row of the theater's dress circle – were at the same level as the private box that Lincoln, his wife and his guests were seated in.
The tickets come with an envelope that held them, annotated by a contemporary hand:"Front Seats, Dress Circle, Reserved, Complimentary, Fords Theatre, April 14, 1865, ."It's unlikely those seated with these tickets would have been able to see John Wilkes Booth actually shoot Lincoln in the back of the head. But they would have seen Booth leap from the box onto the stage as he fled.
The tickets were last sold from a collection of American historical documents gathered by Malcolm Forbes, the late publisher ofThe tickets were not the piece of Lincoln memorabilia that garnered the highest price at the Boston-based auction house this past weekend. That distinction goes to a
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