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Pair of Abraham Lincoln Rocking Chairs From His Springfield, Illinois Residence -- His Last Before M

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD
Pair of Abraham Lincoln Rocking Chairs From His Springfield, Illinois Residence -- His Last Before M

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Auction Date:2014 Jan 30 @ 17:00 (UTC-8 : PST/AKDT)
Location:11901 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 555, Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
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Wooden rocking chairs from the home of Abraham Lincoln. Pair of chairs were present in Lincoln's Springfield, Illinois home when he was elected President, at which time he divested himself of his home's furnishings, among them these chairs. Lincoln's departure from Springfield for the White House is remembered for the eloquent speech he gave to the crowd who saw him off at the train station, perhaps more so for his emotional delivery than for the actual phrasing of the address. A period LOA affixed under the seat of one chair reads, ''Chairs belonged to Mr. & Mrs. L. & were used by them in their Springfield Ill. home and when they were breaking up to go to Washington, D.C. they were given to a Miss Olmstedt, a very intimate friend of the Lincolns & a near neighbor in Spring-Ill. Miss O went abroad for her health and died there about 1921 - sold the chairs to Mrs. Touchard with the privilege of buying them back - but never came back...'' A later note on the LOA reads, ''Bought of Mrs. Touchard by Mrs. John Cougar Palmer & presented by her to her son-in-law Henry Coolidge Learned about 1925 / H.C. Learned''. Also accompanied by a copy of a signed letter from Dorothy W. Hobbs, chairman of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, which restored the Lincoln's Springfield home. Hobbs expresses interest in obtaining the chairs for the Lincoln Home National Historic Site. Chairbacks have the original six spindles; stencil design and finish date to the 1930's. Wear to finish, overall very good condition.