After disappearing for around 50 years, Lee Harvey Oswald's wedding band is being auctioned off with online bidding already at more than $32,500, CBS News reported.
A Boston auction house is taking bids on nearly 300 items associated with the life and death of President John F. Kennedy. The ring was returned last year to Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, Marina Oswald, now Marina Porter, who decided to sell the piece.
In a five-page letter that accompanies the ring, she wrote, "That is the only item of Lee's that has been returned to me and it took almost 50 years...At this time of my life I don't wish to have Lee's ring in my possession because symbolically I want to let go of my past that is connecting with Nov. 22, 1963."
The handwritten letter documents the ring's history, including when Oswald purchased the gold band in a Minsk jewelry store and how he left it on a night stand the day of the Kennedy assassination, according to RR Auction House.
The ring he left on his wife's night table was taken by the Secret Service in 1963 and then seemingly disappeared. It might never have been found if not for the efforts of a Dallas-area investigator, Dave Perry, according to CBS News.
Perry, who has spent four decades studying the charismatic 35th president's death, found in the ring in 2004 when a Dallas law firm asked him to look at some old documents.
"I keep going through the box and I find this little envelope," he said. "I open the envelope, and out fell a wedding ring. This was, to me, like finding pieces of eight off a Spanish galleon--if I could prove the provenance."
The proof was a tiny stamp found by a jeweler at the auction house, RR Auctions.
"In Lee Harvey Oswald's wedding ring, is a Soviet star with a hammer and sickle, a maker's mark from the Russian government telling us, this wedding ring was made in Russia," Bobby Livingston from RR Auctions said.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination in downtown Dallas. The auction lot also includes items ranging from Kennedy's rosary beads to Oswald's U.S. Marine Corps rifle score book.
An auction house official said the ring could go for $100,000 or more, the Associated Press reported.
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