Large collection of Abraham Lincoln letters, “Across Five Aprils”, to go on display April 27th.

According to LompocRecord.com, last October, letters and memorabilia were found from Leonard Swett, an Illinois attorney and confidant of President Abraham Lincoln. Swett’s granddaughter, Laura Burnham, lived and died in Santa Maria. Her estate bequeathed the scrapbooks to the museum.

The letters, which were authenticated by multiple historians including some from the Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Ill., are either from or to the likes of Lincoln, Swett, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Gen. George Armstrong Custer, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, New York newspaper publisher Thurlow Weed, Supreme Court Justice David Davis and others.

Read more here: http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/local/lincoln-lives-at-sm-valley-historical-museum/article_477163a6-aa45-11e2-985e-0019bb2963f4.html?comment_form=true

 

Artifacts still being discovered at wreck of Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha.

Participants in the Atocha Dive Adventure will join the effort to recover artifacts and treasure from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha. In 1985, shipwreck salvager Mel Fisher uncovered an estimated $500 million of the Atocha’s treasure

Read more hear: http://www.sportdiver.co.uk/News/Latest-News/Divers-invited-to-hunt-for-treasure-on-1622-Spanish-galleon

Illegal Artifact Ring Broken Up in Florida

A group of thirteen individuals—11 from Florida and two from Georgia—were arrested February 27 on 400 felony counts for trading in illegal historical artifacts, many of them Native American, taken from state-owned lands in Florida.

Read and see more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/14/illegal-artifact-ring-broken-florida-148181

Rare Persian rug is worth £5million

A PERSIAN rug that measures 8ft 9ins by 6ft 5ins is set to sell for £5million – or £92,592 per square foot.

Persian rug is worth tidy pile of £5million