LINCOLN MEMORABILIA. Fragment of dark blue silk from the flag that draped the box at Ford's Theatre where President Lincoln was seated the night he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, whose boot caught in the fringe of the flag. Accompanied by mid 19th-century note in sepia ink script by A.L. Sturtevant who was serving at the U.S. Treasury at the time. - Silk, L: 2 5/8 in. Estimate $100-200
