The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated have been sold for $1.52 million at a controversial auction. The gloves were among the treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln that were sold on Wednesday.

Lincoln's assassination artifacts, including gloves and a "wanted" poster, fetched high bids at an auction to repay a loan by the Lincoln Presidential Foundation.

A pair of blood-stained gloves that were in Abraham Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated have been sold at auction for $1.52 million, while a handkerchief he had that night went for $826,000.