If you shop at thrift stores, then you already know that there are many great deals available to help you deck out your home, or some affordable outfits, but for some people, minor thrift store purchases have left them with some major profits.The Declaration of Independence: $477,650Michael Sparks visited a thrift store near his home one day to purchase a few items for his house. He ended up But is it? What if you found it enveloped behind a random $4 dollar painting? Too imaginative? Well, it's true. A thrift store shopper paid $4 for an "ugly painting" because he liked the frame in 1991 at a Pennsylvania flea market. He then discovered a folded-up copy of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence behind the painting. A Tennessee man was right about the scroll he found in a thrift shop being worth the $2.48 asking price -- it's a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The Truest Copy of the Declaration of Independence. In June 1992, Tom Lingenfelter, a dealer in rare historical documents and artifacts in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, found the truest copy of the 1776 handwritten Declaration of Independence at a flea market. This extraordinary discovery was able to tell a more complete story of how this priceless In 2007, a man named Michael Sparks, bought a rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence for $2.48 at a Nashville thrift store. It was one of the 200 "official copies" of the Declaration of Independence commissioned by John Quincy Adams. Declaration of Independence (Sparks): $477,650 Hulton Archive/Getty Images. An original copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence was discovered by a man named Michael Sparks in 2006. Sparks was browsing a Nashville, TN thrift store and came across a rolled-up document with no price tag. Upon opening the envelope, he found a copy of the Declaration of Independence, but not just any copy. He did not realize it at the time, but what he had in his possession was one of the 25 original copies printed in July of 1776. A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter at a Nashville thrift shop is being valued by experts at about 100,000 times the $2.48 purchase price. The unidentified buyer paid just $4 for his thrift and only discovered later that the document, one of just 25 from the original batch of Declarations printed in 1776, was found behind the painting when he went to take the frame apart. In 1991, a collector in Pennsylvania stumbled upon an incredible find at a thrift store. While looking for bargains, he bought a $4 painting just for its fra In 1991, a collector in Pennsylvania stumbled upon an incredible find at a thrift store. While looking for bargains, he bought a $4 painting just for its fra A LUCKY thrift shopper has revealed he found a copy of the Declaration of Independence which later sold for almost half a million dollars. Michael Sparks bought the worn and yellowed document from Music City Thrift in Nashville, Tennessee for just $2.48. In a similar story from 2006, an 1823 copy of the Declaration was purchased at a thrift store in Tennessee for $2.50 and sold at auction for nearly $478,000. These stories, and others like them, reappear on the Internet and in news services every year around the Fourth of July. A rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence was sold at auction for $477,650 by a man who found it last year in a Nashville thrift store for $2.48. In 2006, Michael Sparks was searching through Music City Thrift Shop in Nashville when he discovered what he believed to be a print of the Declaration of Independence. He purchased the document for $2.48, and when he got home, he started doing some research. In 1989, a Philadelphia financial analyst bought an old painting (a depiction of a country scene) for $4 at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania, mostly because he liked the frame. He liked The Declaration of Independence. Though it seems like the plot of a movie, this really happened! In 1991, a thrifter paid $4 for a nice frame he found at a thrift store in Pennsylvania. When he removed the original picture from the frame, he found the Declaration of Independence. After the document was verified, it was sold for $2.4 million. 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 When the collector opened the “dismal painting” from its back to keep the frame, he came across a vintage document—it was the Declaration of Independence. Notably, the valuable document was one of just 25 from the original batch printed after 13 North American British colonies announced their separation from Britain, reported the outlet.
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