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To: ETL
A fierce bidding war between two unidentified parties forced the price up, and applause erupted in the venerable auction house when the hammer came down and the 223-year-old book sold for $9,826,500 to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.

I don't think we'll see it for sale again.

14 posted on 06/23/2012 8:14:22 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

I don’t think we will ever see it sold again either. This particular piece is fascinating. Just think.... decisions around and at the infancy of our nation were extracted from this as a reference book.


17 posted on 06/23/2012 8:31:42 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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