Rye Resident's Lincoln Collection Sells At Auction

RYE, NY — An auction of a Rye resident's Abraham Lincoln collection netted nearly $300,000 Sept. 27. Swann Auction Galleries said almost 90 percent of Harold Holzer's collection sold at auction in Manhattan.

Holzer, a Rye resident, had an 1860 painting of Lincoln without a beard that drew $40,000, which was the highest price of all the items that were sold, the Journal News said.

Holzer is the director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.

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