Declaration of Independence sets $8.14m Web record

SOTHEBY’S are celebrating setting the top price achieved for an object at auction on the Internet with the $7.4m paid on June 29 for a first printing copy of the American Declaration of Independence.

The Dunlap broadside, as this example is called, is one of only 25 known remaining copies of the fir…

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