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 Post subject: Declaration of Independence for $2.48
PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:27 pm 
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Declaration of Independence for $2.48
Bidding for rare ‘official copy’ bought at thrift shop to start at $125,000



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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter at a Nashville thrift shop is being valued by experts at about 100,000 times the $2.48 purchase price.

Michael Sparks, a music equipment technician, is selling the document in an auction March 22nd at Raynors' Historical Collectible Auctions in Burlington, North Carolina. The opening bid is $125,000 and appraisers have estimated it could sell for nearly twice that.

Sparks found his bargain last March while browsing at Music City Thrift Shop in Nashville. When he asked the price on a yellowed, shellacked, rolled-up document, the clerk marked it at $2.48.

It turned out to be an "official copy" of the Declaration of Independence — one of 200 commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820.

He didn't know he had such a valuable piece until doing some online research and then having appraisers at Raynors' offer an opinion.




^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17302444/?GT1=9033


You never know what you can find a thrift store :o

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Oh wow! What a lucky man, and now.. he's rich.

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Wow. Another reminder that good things can happen, in a world which seems to only give us old rolled up $2.48 junk.

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The thrift stores here suck- you can only find really crappy things. And expensive crappy things, at that. :(

Congrats to that guy, though. :O

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Now that's a bargain. Good on him for researching and finding this out. It could have just sat there on his coffee table for friends to see. 'Hey look, isn't this fancy? Oh, don't worry about the spill. It's just a cheap document anyway.'

Hm, I wonder if I can get my model chili pepper magnets appraised too. :D

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