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Heritage July 8 National Treasure

Auction Features One of the Earliest

July 1776 Broadside Editions of the

Declaration of Independence

DALLAS, TX – There are relatively few items in Heritage Auctions’ two in private
thoughtfully assembled July 8 Historical Platinum Session Signature® hands. The others
Auction; just shy of 100 offerings. Yet its breadth and depth stagger when reside at Harvard
taken as a whole. How else to explain seeing in a single place a handwritten University,
Sigmund Freud manuscript, Sam Houston’s personal Map of Texas Georgetown
published in 1841, and, from a century later, 20-year-old Norma Jeane University, the
Dougherty’s first (legal) step toward becoming movie star Marilyn Massachusetts
Monroe? This event spans the birth of the United States of America Historical Society
through the Space Race that pitted this country against the Soviet Union. and the Peabody
It includes among its estimable ranks some of the world’s most important Essex Museum.
documents, including an astoundingly rare Declaration of Independence Another extra-
printed in Massachusetts only days after its signing in Philadelphia and ordinary rarity is
the letter in which Ringo Starr declares he has joined a band called the the only 49-star
Beatles. Here, too, are the accidental gifts of history, including the Oval Office flag
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s handwritten room receipt among a ever made, in this
cache of archives from the Hotel Albert in Selma, Alabama. case for President
This auction encompasses politics, popular culture, the Wild West, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s second term. Eisenhower was the only
the Civil Rights Movement and even Shakespeare and Harry Potter. It’s president to serve under flags bearing three different numbers of stars:
also marked by its triumphs and its tragedies, its tangible connections When he was elected in 1953, the country had 48 states; the 49-star flag
to milestone yesterdays and immortal somebodies, among them kings became official in 1959 when Alaska became a state; and it was
and queens and authors named Joyce and Dickens. It brims with amaz- subsequently replaced by the 50-star design when Hawaii became a
ing relics to be held, appreciated, admired and, yes, acquired, including state just seven months later, making the 49-star design an absolute rar-
the only 49-star presidential flag ever made for the Oval Office. ity. The 49-star presidential flag is one of just three Oval Office flags in
Heritage, the largest auction house founded in the U.S., is honored private hands: The others are the 48-star flag and John F. Kennedy’s
to present the first broadside edition of the Declaration of flag. The one offered here was the only one made, further underscoring
Independence printed in Massachusetts. There are only six recorded its significance in American history.
copies of this historic broadside, and the one offered here is just one of For more information, visit www.HA.com

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