Bidders are taking home a bit of history after an auction of memorabilia at a wax museum that has entertained visitors to Gettysburg for decades.
The Evening Sun of Hanover reported Saturday that a figure of Abe Lincoln sold for $1,500, more than four times what someone paid for his assassin.
The paper says a large crowd was on hand for the sale of more than 300 exhibit items from the American Civil War Wax Museum.
The facility is undergoing a massive renovation and will reopen later this year as the Gettysburg Heritage Center.
Most of the life-sized figures are vinyl, rather than wax.
The paper says bidders paid about $1,000 each for reproductions of Gens. Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade.
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