Bill of Rights amendment makes over a million at Sotheby’s

The record-shattering sum of $41m paid for an extremely rare, 1787 first printing of the US Constitution at Sotheby’s New York last November was covered in ATG No 2520, but a sale held by the same auction house a few days later, on November 23, also contained rare items of American historical interest.

The most expensive in this sale titled Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents, at …

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