A rare copy of the first edition of the US Constitution will be auctioned in New York and its price could reach a millionaire figure. It is one of 11 surviving copies, and the only one in private hands, of the first printing of the final document, which was reproduced for delegates to the 1787 convention. This copy belongs to philanthropist Dorothy Tapper Goldman, who received it from her husband. According to auction house Sotheby’s, the convention printer created 500 copies of this document and distributed them to delegates.
A rare copy of the first edition of the US Constitution will be auctioned in New York and its price could reach a millionaire figure. It is one of 11 surviving copies, and the only one in private hands, of the first printing of the final document, which was reproduced for delegates to the 1787 convention. This copy belongs to philanthropist Dorothy Tapper Goldman, who received it from her husband. According to auction house Sotheby’s, the convention printer created 500 copies of this document and distributed them to delegates.