Tickets for play that became a real-life tragedy

A pair of clipped tickets to the production of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, sold for $210,000 (£173,500) at RR Auction (25% buyer’s premium) in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 23. It was the night of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

The scene at Ford’s Theatre has been well documented through newspaper reports, eyewitness account…

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