Bob Dylan’s handwritten and signed lyrics to “Blowing in the Wind,” handwritten and signed at New York’s St. Regis Hotel in 2011, sold for $51,200 in an online-only Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Memorabilia auction held on January 29th by University Archives in Wilton, CT. Also, an 1857 Abraham Lincoln signed check for $14, payable to a local saddle and harness maker, achieved $32,000; and a circa 1889 wrought-iron architectural artifact salvaged from Paris’s Eiffel Tower in 1983 hit $32,000.
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