Name: Pawn Stars: Abraham Lincoln Chair | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T22:31:18.000Z
Duration: 5 min 2 s
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Past simple

- Well, obviously, all we got here is a chair.

Future simple

One of the most famous chairs you'll ever see.

JERRY: Abraham Lincoln sat on it while he

JERRY: It comes from a set of chairs that was in the White

but the furniture was a big deal back then.

you know, well off people did-- they spent money on furniture

and silverware and luxury items around the house

MAN: Presidential memorabilia sells for good money.

So if we can actually tie this chair to Abraham Lincoln,

JERRY: One letter is from the White House telling

the chairs there because they had too much furniture.

But then I have the original newspaper clipping where

Robert Todd Lincoln donated them to a girls'

Do you have any other proof that it's his or--

How much were were you looking to get out of it?

Doesn't sound out of the realm of possibility.

Do you mind if I call someone to take a look at them?

He runs the Clark County Museum system here.

And he could probably tell me everything about them.

Any expert that they want to bring in, bring them on.

MAN: I really want this to be Abraham Lincoln's chair,

but I'm a little concerned over his paperwork.

So I called him my friend Mark to look at this thing.

There's a possibility that Abraham Lincoln's

MARK: There are high points in every chair's life, I guess.

of the United States, nobody has a bigger

Anything related to Abraham Lincoln is hugely popular.

So do you have any paperwork that goes along with this?

This is one of Matthew Brady's photographs of Lincoln.

It shows this decorative element right here on the side.

And so when you look at this, you see this decorative element

So obviously, this chair isn't this chair.

that's in this photo is one that Matthew Brady owned,

would have been highly unlikely it was ever in the White House.

Now, I tried to pull up every interior either drawing

or photograph from the Lincoln period that I can find

and I didn't find this chair in any of them.

What I couldn't find is any photographic proof

As I read this, we don't have anything from Lincoln

but there's not enough for me to say that these are ones that

And thank you, and very interesting to see.

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