Abraham Lincoln, Fine Funeral Memento 

A gem-size albumen portrait of Lincoln framed in a small brass mat affixed to a red, white, and blue ribbon. The whole piece housed inside a pocket watch case with the typed note Bought and worn at Abraham Lincoln's funeral by George Spears Beekman, May 4th, 1865. Accompanied by clippings from the Illinois State Register, Oct. 21, 1927, and Illinois State Journal, Oct. 23, 1927, the former titled G.S. Beekman Treasures Souvenir Sold at Lincoln's Funeral, which explains that Beekman bought the piece for $0.25 from a hawker at the corner of Fourth and Monroe on the day of Lincoln's funeral.  Beekman stated, "I was a boy of 16 -- I am 78 now -- and the entire city, as well as persons from all over the world, had gathered for the rites, not yet recovered from the shock that accompanied the president's death. With other boys I had been at the station when the funeral train arrived. A military sentry nearly took my head off because I peeked into the car in which the body lay."