Unique Items

Abraham Lincoln’s funeral bugle sells for $100,000
The bugle was used to play Taps at Lincoln’s funeral in 1865

Albert Einstein’s personal telescope is selling next week
Einstein’s telescope is expected to sell for around $300,000

Abraham Lincoln’s rail splitter to make $500,000?
Lincoln made this mallet on the family farm in 1829

Fossilised plesiosaur skeleton leads at Summers Place
The plesiosaur was discovered on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast

Napoleon’s laurel crown leaf smashes estimate
The gold leaf was removed before Napoleon’s coronation

Apple founders’ Blue Box will sell at Bonhams
This was the first product Jobs and Wozniak worked on together

Lee Harvey Oswald’s toe tag hammers for $56,000
The tag was recovered from Lee Harvey Oswald’s body in 1963

Leaded atomic glass sold for $7,000 in Dallas
The glass was used to protect workers during the Manhattan Project

Ancient Greek drinking horn valued at $18,500
The drinking horn displays grisly scenes of mutilation

Winston Churchill cigar achieves record $12,000
Churchill smoked the cigar before getting on a plane