A rare copy of the first printing of the U.S. Constitution is going up for auction next month. The auction house estimates it'll sell for at least $20 million to $30 million.
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When the final text emerged from months of work, hundreds of official copies were printed. But through the years, only a fraction of them have survived."Printed in an edition of approximately 500 copies by John Dunlap and David Claypoole, the official printers to the Convention, only 13 copies are now known to exist, and of those, just two copies remain in private hands," according to Sotheby's. The other copies are owned by governments and institutions.
"Copies from the first printing have only appeared at auction a handful of times since they were first printed and issued to delegates more than 200 years ago, so the appearance of this copy on the market is truly a special moment," said Selby Kiffer, Sotheby's International Senior Specialist for Books & Manuscripts.
Before the rare copy of the U.S. Constitution goes up for sale, it will go on public exhibit in New York, starting this Friday: Sotheby's will have the Van Sinderen Constitution in its galleries from Nov. 4–22, with a second exhibition planned from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12. The last time the document was seen in public was in 1987, when it was exhibited at Stanford University, according to Sotheby's.
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