The chair used by Mathew Brady for his portraits of Lincoln, Grant, Mark Twain and others is coming up for auction. After 11 months in Europe on a falling Canadian dollar, this chair is a little beyond my budget, but man – what a conversation piece the winning bidder will have!

She said: ‘There is perhaps no other single object that connects with so many important people, all prominent figures in 19th-century American history.’It is not only an important survivor from a significant official American commission, but, and most importantly, is the physical support for portrait photographs of the most prominent figures in nineteenth-century American history.’ The chair will be sold at Bonhams auction house in New York on October 26.

Source: Abraham Lincoln gifted photographer Mathew Brady a wooden chair now on sale | Daily Mail Online