What Do Marilyn Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, Paul Gauguin and Wilton Have in Common?

WILTON, CT — A photograph of Abraham Lincoln could fetch as much as $1 million at a Wilton auction this month.

Auction house University Archives, based in Wilton, is placing a collection of more than 60 lots of Lincoln-centric items on the block. The online-only auction will be held on Wednesday, April 23 at 10 a.m.

The auction will include Lincoln autograph letters signed, autograph legal briefs, signed checks, and signed appointments; as well as relics, engravings, photographs, newspapers, and memorabilia.

The Great Emancipator is not the only dead celeb whose personal effects are expected to fetch some serious coin beneath the gavel. More than 530 lots of historical artifacts from multiple collecting categories will be offered, in addition to the Abraham Lincoln Collection. A 3-page scientific manuscript in German, handwritten by Albert Einstein, relating to his Unified Field Theory, is expected to command $80,000 - $120,000. A single-page letter in French, signed by Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, could fetch up to $15,000, according to the auction house. Marilyn Monroe's personal script for her unfinished last film, "Something's Got To Give," looks to net $75,000 and $100,000.

But the top trophy is Lot 65, an "incredibly vivid and lifelike" photo of Abraham Lincoln.

"This interpositive - a silver gelatin positive transparency on glass - represents perhaps the most vivid and lifelike photographic likeness of Lincoln ever produced," the auction house touts. The image, measuring 8.625" by 11" and housed in an elegant custom-built cabinet presentation case, is estimated to fetch between $800,000 and $1 million.

University Archives turned collectors' heads recently when their auctioneers began accepting bids for the handwritten lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in The Wind," signed by the troubadour himself. That auction, held in January, also offered a sketch by Einstein and an April '79 edition of Interview magazine, signed by Andy Warhol.