(Lincoln, Abraham) The pair of German opera glasses carried by President Lincoln at the 14 April 1865 performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre—the evening he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Fully functional man's opera glasses of German manufacture (the original case, in the Ford's Theatre National Park Collection, stamped "Gebruder Strausshof Optiker | Berlin"); black-enameled telescoping ocular tubes, gilt metal central spindle with composition focus gear, gilt metal fittings and inner ocular tubes, four ground glass lenses (two 1/2 in. and 2 1 3/8 in. in diameter), lathe-turned threaded eyepieces; one eyepiece a bit askew and with a tiny crack in its lens, the other with a tiny chip. Approximately 4 in. wide, 2 3/4 in. deep when closed (3 3/4 in. deep when fully extended), 1 1/2 in. high. Displayed on a custom-made, velvet-lined turned mahogany pillar, with explanatory engraved brass plaque, surmounted by a glass dome trimmed in brass.
(Lincoln, Abraham) The pair of German opera glasses carried by President Lincoln at the 14 April 1865 performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre—the evening he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Fully functional man's opera glasses of German manufacture (the original case, in the Ford's Theatre National Park Collection, stamped "Gebruder Strausshof Optiker | Berlin"); black-enameled telescoping ocular tubes, gilt metal central spindle with composition focus gear, gilt metal fittings and inner ocular tubes, four ground glass lenses (two 1/2 in. and 2 1 3/8 in. in diameter), lathe-turned threaded eyepieces; one eyepiece a bit askew and with a tiny crack in its lens, the other with a tiny chip. Approximately 4 in. wide, 2 3/4 in. deep when closed (3 3/4 in. deep when fully extended), 1 1/2 in. high. Displayed on a custom-made, velvet-lined turned mahogany pillar, with explanatory engraved brass plaque, surmounted by a glass dome trimmed in brass.
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