Thanks to George Stewart for sharing this article.

Very relevant to our Sons of the American Revolution audience.

Recently a very rare printed copy of the US Constitution was located in the filing cabinet of a storage room in the prior home of the NC state governor (1787-1789).

It recently sold at auction for $9 million!

Bet you wish you would have found that at a garage sale!

Background:

Two years after the only known private copy of the U.S. Constitution printed by Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress, was found in a filing cabinet of a North Carolina home, the document was sold for $9 million at auction.

Until 2022, the 237-year-old document was collecting dust in a metal filing cabinet underneath a can of stain inside a long forgotten storage room inside the home.

The home in Edenton, North Carolina, had once been owned by Samuel Johnston, the state’s governor from 1787 to 1789, and was being cleared out. It’s not clear how it ended up in the cabinet in the first place.

Thomson printed about 100 copies of the Constitution during the Continental Congress’ existence, and only eight are known to still exist, seven of them in public ownership.

The full article can be read via the link below:

https://apple.news/A-tXG2SXkTYWlytNK_lxiYQ

See, some man’s junk can really be treasure!!