QUICK TAKES - May 23, 2009
Associated Press
A gold-and-silver Tiffany pitcher that dates to Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration in 1861 is to be auctioned next month and could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The pitcher, presumably a gift to Lincoln, is the feature item to be auctioned June 6 in Cincinnati. The pitcher is expected to go for $300,000 to $400,000.
The pitcher has been owned by a Cincinnati family. The item has been on loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington for four decades.
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