The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold. They were auctioned to pay off the remainder of a two-decade-old loan that the Lincoln Presidential Foundation used to buy a one-of-a-kind cluster of Lincoln artifacts from a California collector.

Items worn by President Abraham Lincoln the night he was assassinated have fetched more than €6 million at an auction to pay off a 20-year-old debt incurred by the Lincoln Presidential Foundation. Vie

The anonymous “Paddle 1231” won most of the priciest artifacts, including a lock of Lincoln’s hair and a pair of blood-stained gloves.