Though the item has long been historically linked with the president, a recent Illinois state study suggest it may never have belonged to Honest Abe.
A stovepipe hat long displayed at President Abraham Lincoln's presidential museum in Springfield, Illinois, may not have belonged to the Great Emancipator at all, a recent study found.
In fact, the hat was at one point sold for $1 at an antique shop in 1950s, and the original seller had no proof that it was Lincoln's. From that store, Lincoln artifact collector and museum board director Louise Taper bought the hat. She then sold it to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, which bought it for the museum. At appraisal, it was later declared to be worth $6.5 million, part of the $25 million cache of artifacts used to establish the museum.
Wheeler's study also found that the hat was not Lincoln's size. The museum, according to WBEZ, also had the hat swabbed by the FBI in pursuit of Lincoln's DNA, to no gain.
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