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Lock of Thomas Jefferson’s hair auctioned for $6,875

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
Lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair. Heritage Auctions image
Lock of Thomas Jefferson’s hair. Heritage Auctions image

 

DALLAS (AP) – A lock of hair from Thomas Jefferson has sold at auction in Texas for $6,875, nearly 190 years after the former president died.

Heritage Auctions in Dallas said Saturday’s sale involved 14 strands that were snipped by Jefferson’s personal physician at the time of the statesman’s death on July 4, 1826. A Heritage Auctions statement says the estimate for the hair was $3,000.

Company spokesman Eric Bradley said the buyer wished to remain anonymous.

The seller was collector William F. Northrop, who purchased the lock in the early 1980s from an autograph scholar. The documentation includes a letter confirming the lock as part of a limited number of Jefferson’s hair samples known to exist.

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