Theatre binoculars, which has witnessed the murder of Abraham Lincoln, will be put up for auction for $ -700 thousand. It is with these binoculars Lincoln watched the performance in the Ford Theater in Washington April 14, 1865, when the lodge was actor John Wilkes Booth and shot him in the head.
The next morning, the President of the United States died, not coming in consciousness. Assassin Lincoln - John Wilkes Booth, was a supporter of southerners.
As reported by Agence France-Presse, binoculars for sale auction house Nate Sanders Auctions. The auction house said in a statement that the black and Golden binoculars April 14, 1865, was picked up on the street by James Makkamli, army captain who helped move the hurt of the Lincoln Theatre in a nearby house.
Family Makkamli binoculars was hereditary, its owners were three generations of the family. In 1979, the binoculars was bought by heir to the founder of Forbes magazine Malcolm Forbes.
