Talk About A Bargain
Man finds 'Declaration' scroll for $2.48
NASHVILLE (UPI) -- A Tennessee man was right to buy the scroll he found in a thrift shop was worth the $2.48 asking price -- it's a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence. The Nashville Tennessean reported that Michael Sparks, a music equipment technician, found the scroll marked "1823" at the Music City Thrift Shop, took it home and began researching it on the Internet. He found that in 1820, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams commissioned 200 copies of the Declaration. The one Sparks found was printed by William Stone in 1823. "I'm told that it could go for between $200,000 and $300,000,'' Sparks told the Tennessean. Sparks plans to sell his find through Raynors' Historical Collectible Auctions of Burlington, N.C., which specializes in historic documents. Bidding is set to begin at $125,000.
Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
1 Comments:
I remember an equally interesting story about the
Declaration of Independence. Several years ago someone purchased an old painting at a flea market, just for the frame. The actual painting was not in very good shape.
However the frame was what caught this persons eye and he proceeded to pay a small amount for the frame.
When the guy got home to remove the old painting, he found a paper behind the art. It was a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. All the details had not been hammered out yet. A historian believed that at the
time of the rough draft, this document would have been
a sure ticket to being charged with treason by the British. Someone had hidden the paper there and for some reason, never went back for it. That paper sold for a truck load of money.
I'm never able to find this kind of bargain at flea markets.
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