| Another Astonishing Collectible Auction! Here is proof that there is a tremendous amount of wealth circulating looking for alternatives to stocks, bonds, cash, and banks. |
 In this case, nearly 3 million dollars was spent on a valuable piece of American history… and item not unlike rare US coins…A little-known 1776 copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. |
| Clearly, there is a hunger for alternative investments, but also a hunger for valuable, historically significant items of Americana. |
| The Declaration was not the only valuable piece of Americana to cross the auction block. |
| Two hundred forty-seven years after its creation almost to the day, the first broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence printed in Massachusetts has been sold at Auction for $2,895,000. |
 One of only 13 broadside editions printed between July and August 1776, each originated in print shops scattered across six states: Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Massachusetts. John Rogers printed this auction’s example in Salem, at the shop owned by Ezekiel Russell, from which The American Gazette was published in 1776. |