A resident of the Scottish city Edinburgh found a copy of the US Independence Declaration on the attic and became a millionaire. This is reported by BBC News.
The document found a specialist in the rare books of Katie Marsden (Cathy Marsden), when the ruins disassembled in his attic. “I disassembled paper stack and noticed folded parchment,” the woman told.
She immediately took the paper to work, where, after long research, her authenticity was confirmed. The foundation found declaration was one of 201 writing made by Copiers William Stone (William Stone) on the order of the US Senate in the 1820s. At the moment, the location of 48 documents from this series is known.
As you managed to establish Marsden, her find was one of two copies belonging to Charles Carroll – one of the politicians who signed the Declaration of Independence of the United States on July 4, 1776. He presented their husband to his granddaughter John Maktavish (John Mactavish), a Scottish-Canadian diplomat, serving the UK representative in Maryland.
July 1, the document was sold at the US auction for 4 million 420 thousand dollars.