OFFICIAL COPY OF DECLARATION FOR $2.48 AT
Music City..
Story below....wish I could be so lucky as to find something that valuable...*LOL
Declaration of Independence for $2.48 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
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.
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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.
Story below....wish I could be so lucky as to find something that valuable...*LOL
Declaration of Independence for $2.48 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
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.
ADVERTISEMENT
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.
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Every once in awhile you read a nice story like this. The ignorant, greedy kids can't wait to throw out all the "junk" parents had stashed.
A few years back in Englishtown NJ, a seller at the flea market sold a painting with a copy of the DoI hidden behind the picture. It too fetched a bundle of greenbacks.0 -
My dream is to buy an original Picasso, cut it open and find an original, signed "WALLIE" hidden behind it [:D] 0 -
I love happy endings. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Spider7115
My dream is to buy an original Picasso, cut it open and find an original, signed "WALLIE" hidden behind it [:D]
I kid you not, I bet wallie could (or maybe actually does) make money as a professional artist.0
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