A rare Tiffany pitcher that dates to Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration in 1861 is to be auctioned next month in Cincinnati and could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The pitcher is thought to be a gift to Lincoln and has been owned by a Cincinnati family that declines to be identified.
The item has been on loan to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. for four decades.
The "monumental piece of silver" bears the Great Seal of the United States and is engraved with the inscription, "To the President of the United States Abraham Lincoln from his Washington Friends March 4, 1861."
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