With the Semiquincentennial, Collectors Are Rethinking What American History Is Worth
"There is a particular excitement and celebration of these items right now," according to Heritage Auctions specialist Caroline Tamposi.
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11 Record-Breaking Auction Lots That Reshaped the Americana Market
Once grounded in furniture, folk art, silver, ceramics, stoneware and samplers, this expansive collecting category's highest prices suggest that American identity itself has become a trophy asset.
A Rare Declaration of Independence Broadside Printed by a Secret British Loyalist Is Up for Auction
The Goodspeed-Sang-Streeter copy, printed by Robert Luist Fowle, is one of only 10 surviving Exeter broadsides and one of just 120 surviving contemporary printings of the Declaration of Independence.
