One of the first printed copies of the United States Constitution sold at auction Sotheby’s in New York for $ 43.17 million on Thursday, November 18.
The lot was initially estimated at $ 15-20 million, but the final price was more than twice as high.
The constitution will be handed over to the new owner in a case, which also contains a sheet with a gala dinner program on December 1, 1989 in honor of the US Senate, signed by many politicians and statesmen, for example, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
The six-page document was adopted at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania convention on September 17, 1787. All 500 copies were distributed to the delegates of that historic convention. The sold rarity is the only one of the fifteen surviving copies that remained in a private collection.
On November 3, the head of the auction, Olivier Wagner, announced that the jewelry of the Romanov dynasty would be exhibited at Sotheby’s as a top lot. The auction took place on November 10 in Geneva. The set was secretly taken out of Russia on the eve of the October Revolution of 1917.
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