Glasses ‘used by Mary Lincoln’ on fateful night come to auction in Essex

Could these be the opera glasses used by Mary Lincoln on the night her husband was assassinated? Colchester auction house Reeman Dansie will offer them for sale on September 24-25 with a guide price of £10,000-20,000.

The binoculars are engraved to the ivory mounts with the legend Mrs Mary Lincoln left these glasse…

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