"When it passed to me, I felt an incredible sense of responsibility to care for it, to share it, and to promote our nation's Constitutional principles," she added.
It was originally acquired by her late husband, Howard, and had been "one of (his) dearest possessions," Goldman said in a statement prior to the auction. The text had previously belonged to collector and philanthropist Dorothy Tapper Goldman.
Sotheby's has not disclosed the identity of the successful bidder. In a press release, the auction house said two parties had been involved in a "nearly 8-minute bidding battle." A cryptocurrency investor group called Constitution DAO earlier claimed that it had raised $40 million to buy the document, but tweeted a statement indicating it had not won the auction. Following the production of two earlier drafts, the Constitutional Convention's official printers created 500 copies of a final "official edition" and distributed them to delegates, according to Sotheby's. Constitution laid the foundation for American democracy and guaranteed citizens' basic rights. The document is one of just 11 surviving copies - and the last in private hands - from the first printing of the final text, produced for delegates of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and Continental Congress.ĭrafted during secret meetings in Philadelphia, the U.S. The sale also smashed the auction record for a book, manuscript or printed text, said Sotheby's, which had initially expected bids up to $20 million.
Constitution fetched US$43.2 million in New York on Thursday, becoming the most expensive historical document ever to sell at auction. An exceptionally rare first-edition printed copy of the U.S.
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