Quick!! Someone give me $2 million to $3 million!!

[no1_vern]

Cause George Washingtons' gold-embossed personal copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights is about to come up for auction!!

By Chris Michaud
NEW YORK | Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:57pm EDT
(Reuters) - A gold-embossed piece of U.S. history will go up for sale this month, when Christie's auctions off George Washington's personal copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The documents, which date to 1789 and are signed and annotated by the first U.S. president, are poised to fetch from $2 million to $3 million when they hit the block on June 22, the auction house said on Wednesday.

The bound papers constitute Washington's personal copy of the Acts of Congress. These include the Constitution, whose preamble promises to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity," along with the draft Bill of Rights - the first 10 amendments to the Constitution which include such fundamental liberties as the right to free speech, press, assembly and religion.

The volume, embossed with "President of the United States" in gold on the cover, was described by Christie's as being in near-pristine condition after 223 years. It was specially printed for Washington in 1789, his first year in office as president.

Do Want, I'm just too poor to afford such an item

[Epidemic]

I would love to have such an item. but a good photo copy on a piece of aged looking paper would make me just as happy. I never could understand needing the real thing.

Actually owning a piece of history is meaningless to me. Replicas are absolutely fine with me. I always look at the need or desire to actually own the real thing to be just for showing off (sorta like saying see how rich I am, or how important I am)

Mind you I would not mind having the real thing but I would copy it and then sell it immediatly.

[tony_j15]

To quote a certain whip-carrying archaeologist, "That belongs in a museum!"

[SoloCamo]

To quote a certain whip-carrying archaeologist, "That belongs in a museum!"

Agreed

[Chuckiechan]

Museums will be bidding, the White House should be bidding so they can put it on display.

And in better times, people buy these things and then donate them for a tax write off. What's in it for them? Publicity. No private person would want to own this and display it in an office... too much bad publicity.

BTW, I think the price is too low.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if China bought it? Or Saudi Arabia? Or Iran? LOL

[tony_j15]

Iran could add it to their "things we stole from America exhibit" and put it on display next to the CIA drone aircraft in the old embassy building.