Published 16:04 IST, February 10th 2021

George Washington's hair, JFK's sweater hit auction block ahead of Presidents' Day

Locks of Martha and George Washington’s hair and pen that Warren Harding used to end the US involvement in WWI are hitting the auction block.

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With President Day just around corner, locks of George and Martha Washington’s hair and pen that Warren Harding used to end US involvement in WWI are hitting auction block. According to Associated Press, a Boston-based RR Auction said that online biddings for quirky pieces of White House history will be underway February 11 to February 18. items up for auction include John F Kennedy’s crimson Harvard sweater, a photograph of Lincoln and his son, Tad, signed by 16th president and Andrew Johnson’s order of a national day of mourning after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

‘Nation’s founding to modern times’

Additionally, re are also a number of documents and personal papers signed by John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield and or presidents. While speaking to media outlet, RR Auction’s spokesperson Mike Graff said that collection “hours America’s esteemed commanders-in-chief”.

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“From nation’s founding to modern times, se are leaders who have guided United States through times of war and peace,” he added.

Furr, auction house informed that clippings of Washingtons’ hair were passed down through ir grandniece’s family and include documentation. Johnson’s order for a day of mourning in Lincoln’s hour, on or hand, is dated May 31, 1865. letter read, “Tomorrow June 1 being day appointed for Special Humiliation and Prayer in consequence of assassination of Abraham Lincoln late President of United States, Executive Office and Various Departments will be closed during day”.

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Harding used signing pen on July 2, 1921, to adopt what became kwn as Kx-Porter Resolution, which is a joint act of Congress drafted by two Pennsylvania Republicans, Senator Philander Kx and Rep. Stephen Porter, to terminate U.S. role in WWI. auction house also informed that JFK’s Harvard seater was acquired by Herman Lang, a CBS cameraman who filmed an interview with Jacqueline Kennedy in 1964, year after JKF’s assassination in Dallas. cameraman had mentioned that he was cold and one of former first lady’s staffers brought him cardigan. Lang had even said that he even tried to return it but was n told he could keep it as a memento.