A copy of the Declaration of Independence has sold for $4.4 million after it was found by a rare manuscript specialist in Scotland.
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Cathy Marsden said she found the piece of paper while searching through items for a client at their family home. The documentation was printed in 1823 for the original signer Charles Caroll in Maryland. “I was looking through a pile of papers which had been brought down from the attic, amongst which was a folded-up vellum document. And I looked at the document, and I unfolded it and thought, ‘Oh, this looks interesting,” she said.
The document was auctioned off in Philadelphia on Thursday and it is one of the few copies in the world.
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Marsden said she knew how important the paper was to American culture and she initially didn’t see the significance of it.
“The importance is not something I really recognized when I put it in my little car and drove away. But it soon dawned on me how important this was to the American culture.’’
SOURCE: New York Post