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The copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed within a week of the first printing by John Dunlap is one of just five surviving copies and had an estimate of $2.5m - £5m. Probably the most common question we get in the Americana department is “I found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence—is it worth anything?” The short answer: it’s worth somewhere between zero and ten million dollars. But very likely zero. This folded 1776 Dunlap copy of the Declaration of Independence was still crisp and clean when found in 1989. It sold at Sotheby’s two years later for $2.4 million dollars. This document is the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence. Drafted for the most part by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence justified breaking the colonial ties to Great Britain by providing a basic philosophy of government and a list of grievances against the Crown. John Dunlap of Philadelphia was the printer to the Continental Congress and produced the An early printing of the Declaration of Independence sold for $3.36 million at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, landing smack in the middle of the pre-sale estimate range of $2 million to $5 million. The price represents an auction record for any copy of its variant. Broadside printed by John Dunlap Click for a larger (1336px x 1620px) version of the Dunlap Broadside. The Dunlap broadsides were printed on the night of July 4, 1776, by order of Congress, by John Dunlap, from his shop near the corner of 2nd and Market Streets in Philadelphia, just blocks away from the State House (Independence Hall). There are 26 known Dunlap broadsides, three of which are in British repositories. The Continental Congress did not send any copies to King George III. At Independence National Historical Park, gaze upon This copy of the Declaration was printed by Robert Luist Fowle of New Hampshire. Sotheby's A rare broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence is heading to auction at Sotheby’s, where it As per a 4 July 1776 resolution by the Second Congress, state capitals and assemblies were to be given priority for receiving copies of the Declaration printed by Dunlap. On 16 July 1776, Robert Fowle began printing broadsides of the Declaration of Independence in a special edition of his paper. A copy of the Declaration of Independence that was lost for 177 years has been sold at auction for $4.4 million. The rare document was gifted to the last surviving Founding Father, Charles Carroll John Dunlap (1747-1812) began his career as a printer in Philadelphia in 1757 at the age of ten. After apprenticing to his uncle for over a decade, Dunlap would go on to buy the shop. On July 4th, 1776, Dunlap’s shop began printing the first broadside copies of the Declaration of Independence. spread the news of independence. On July 19, 1776, soon a˚ er word reached Philadelphia that New York had ˝ nally voted to adopt the Declaration, Congress ordered an engrossed copy (prepared in a large clear hand) on parchment. ˜ e engrossed manuscript, which could now be headed “the Unanimous Declaration,” was ˝ nished on August 2, An early printing of the Declaration of Independence sold for a record $3.36 million at Sotheby’s. The document is one of only five known copies of a special newspaper-broadside hybrid, printed within a week of the famous first edition broadside by John Dunlap. The 25th Dunlap copy that sold last week was discovered in 1989, tucked into the back of a tattered painting that was sold for $4 at a flea market in Adamstown, Pa. John Dunlap, official printer to the Continental Congress, produced the first printed versions of the American Declaration of Independence in his Philadelphia shop on the night of July 4, 1776. After the Declaration had been adopted by the Congress earlier that day, a committee took the manuscript document, possibly Thomas Jefferson's "fair copy" of his rough draft, to Dunlap for printing. On The copy of the Declaration of Independence is the priciest piece up for grabs, with a high estimate of $5 million. According to a Sotheby’s statement, it is one of just five known printings of A Dunlap copy was offered in January 2021, when it brought $990,000; the record for a Dunlap broadside is $8.14 million, a figure established in 2000 that still stands to this day. The First Newspaper Printing of the Declaration of Independence. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Newspaper. The Pennsylvania Evening Post, Saturday, July 6, 1776, Philadelphia: Benjamin Towne, 4 pages. 8½ x 10 in. Click Here. The Declaration of Independence: Very Rare New York July 11, 1776 Printing by John Holt. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Over the night of July 4/5, 1776, Dunlap printed possibly one of the most important documents of his career with these first editions of the Declaration of Independence. In doing so, he produced the first public and published version of the Declaration. In July 2022, a copy of the official printing of the Declaration for the state of Massachusetts was auctioned for $2.2 million. Last June, a New York broadside version sold for $3.4 million. In 2000, a copy of the Dunlap print sold for $8.1m (£5m), the most valuable copy thus far.
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