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INVESTIGATING IMPORTANT OBJECTS. NEXT, A LOOK AT GEORGE WASHINGTON'S PERSONAL COPY OF THE ACTS OF CONGRESS, A 1789 PRINTED RECORD OF THE FIRST U.S....
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CONGRESS. CONSIGNED BY THE ESTATE OF RICHARD DETRIC JR. AND IT IS SHOWING IN THE FRONT OF THE ROOM FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO PEEK...
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| 00:01:30 |
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TO WORK WITH OUR CURTORIAL AND LIBRARY TO THINK ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF THIS MOST MONUMENTAL BOOK FOR THE MT. VERNON COLLECTION. GEORGE WASHINGTON...
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| 00:04:44 |
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MILLION. NOW FORMING IN DOLLARS, FORMING IN $200,000. >>> HI, MY NAME IS FRANCIS WALGREN FOR CHRISTIE'S, AND WE'RE HERE TODAY IN WASHINGTON BRINGING ONE...
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| 00:05:10 |
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EVER HANDLED. THE ACTS OF CONGRESS THAT BELONG TO GEORGE WASHINGTON. FROM HIS LIBRARY SIGNED BY HIM AND ANNOTATED BY HIM IN THE MARGINS. WE FELT WASHINGTON...
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| 00:05:57 |
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A TOP PRIORITY ACQUISITION FOR MT. VERNON. IT WAS WITHIN OUR NUMBER ONE CATEGORY OF TRYING TO RETURN ORIGINAL OBJECTS BACK TO MT. VERNON. BUT IN MY...
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| 00:06:50 |
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YOU COULD FEEL THE ENERGY IN THE ROOM. OF COURSE AS IT NEARED THE ACTUAL SALE, IT HEIGHTENED. AND SUDDENLY THE ROOM WAS FILLED WITH PEOPLE AND WITH...
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| 00:07:26 |
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BEFORE. THE REASON WHY I ATTENDED WAS BECAUSE WE WANTED TO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE ROOM AND NOT SOMEONE WHO WAS AN AGENT OR A GO-BETWEEN. WE WANTED...
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| 00:08:02 |
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MILLION, $5.6 MILLION, A SEATED BIDDER. >> AND I WAS ABLE TO JOIN THE BIDDING AFTER THE FIRST ROUND OF FAST AND FURIOUS BIDDING, BUT THAT WAS ALREADY...
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GOT IN. AND IT CONTINUED ON UNTIL FINALLY THERE WERE TWO BIDDERS IN THE ROOM. >> $5.8 MILLION WITH PAUL. SAY SIX? $6 MILLION. >> LADIES ASSOCIATION...
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| 00:08:35 |
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HAD ALREADY GONE TO PRINT. AND IN THAT PERIOD
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| 00:08:38 |
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OF TIME, WE WORKED VERY HARD TO FIND A DONOR OR AN ANGEL WHO WOULD HELP BRING THIS BOOK HOME TO MT. VERNON. BECAUSE WE ARE A NONPROFIT INSTITUTION AND...
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| 00:09:27 |
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KNOW, FEELS LIKE HOURS. BUT AGAIN, IT'S DRAMA, IT'S HIGH DRAMA GETTING INTO THAT STRATOSPHERE OF VALUE. >> $6.2 MILLION, $6.5 MILLION, FOR $6.5 MILLION....
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| 00:09:50 |
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OF CONGRESS WHICH HAD JUST ENDED. SO IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT COULDN'T
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| 00:09:55 |
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HAVE BEEN PRINTED BEFORE THE LEGISLATION WAS ENACTED. BUT THE FACT THAT IT HAD THE TEXT OF THE CONSTITUTION RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING, I THINK, WAS THE...
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| 00:10:23 |
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NOTE REQUIRED. AND I THINK THIS IS VERY TELLING BECAUSE IT'S REALLY WASHINGTON NOTING WHAT HE ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT FORGET TO DO. AND THAT ADDRESSES THE...
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| 00:11:53 |
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OF THE BOOK. YOU CAN SEE THE BRACKETING HERE, IT'S VERY PALE, VERY LIGHT. AND THIS PARTICULAR PASSAGE IS CONTAINED IN THAT BRACKET. THE PRESIDENT SHALL...
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| 00:12:32 |
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HIS RESPONSIBILITIES. AND I BELIEVE HE WAS KEENLY AWARE OF THE USE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL POWER. TO FURTHER THE PUBLIC GOOD. AND HE ALSO KNEW THAT THE...
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| 00:13:05 |
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MILLION. >> HERE WE HAVE THE CONSTITUTION AT THE FRONT OF THE BOOK, AT THE BACK WE HAVE THE DRAFT BILL OF
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| 00:13:16 |
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RIGHTS. WHICH HAD BEEN PROPOSED BUT NOT YET RATIFIED BY THE STATES. AND IT'S INTERESTING TOO. YOU CAN TELL THIS IS VERY EARLY. $12 AMENDMENTS HERE....
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| 00:13:46 |
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DOCUMENTS OF THIS COUNTRY. IT WAS NOT JUST THE CONSTITUTION. IT WAS ALSO A COUPLING WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND HOW THAT IMPACTED THE FREEDOMS, THE LIBERTIES...
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| 00:14:15 |
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MILLION, $7.5 MILLION, THE BID IS WITH THE LADY. >> MY EYES WERE, OF COURSE, LOCKED ON TO THE AUCTIONEER. BUT THERE WAS APPARENTLY A GROUP ON
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| 00:14:28 |
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THE OTHER SIDE. AND EVERY TIME THE BID WENT TO THEM, THEY WOULD LEAN IN AND CONFER WITH EACH OTHER AND COME UP WITH THE NEXT BID, WHICH TO ME SEEMED...
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| 00:15:11 |
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MOST SERENDIPITOUS THING WAS WHEN I ARRIVED THAT MORNING AT CHRISTIE'S. I WENT INTO THE ROOM AND CHRIS
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| 00:15:26 |
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COOVER TOOK THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OUT OF THE CASE AND WE LOOKED AT IT AND I REALIZED THIS WAS PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME THAT I WOULD EVER SEE IT IN SUCH...
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| 00:16:32 |
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ARE THREE SIMILAR BOOKS. ONE IS JOHN JAY'S COPY. SIMILAR LAYOUT, BINDING, THAT THE IN A PRIVATE COLLECTION. THOMAS JEFFERSON HAD A COPY, THAT COPY IS...
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| 00:17:20 |
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CONSTITUTION. HE SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF
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| 00:17:24 |
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IN 1787. AND AFTERWARDS, EXERTED HIMSELF BEHIND THE SCENES TO MAKE SURE IT WAS RATIFIED BY THE STATES. CONGRESS WAS MEETING,...
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| 00:18:15 |
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ESTIMATE ON IT WAS VERY LOW. THERE WAS A LETTER THAT WAS SOLD AT CHRISTIE'S
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| 00:18:21 |
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TWO YEARS AGO THAT WAS WRITTEN TO WASHINGTON BY BUSHROD, AND IT SOLD FOR $2.3 MILLION TO A FRENCHMAN. SO WE KNEW THAT THE INTEREST IN THIS. THIS IS...
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| 00:18:56 |
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MILLION. >> THE ACTS OF CONGRESS HAS HAD A REMARKABLE JOURNEY. AND IT IS TRULY
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| 00:19:06 |
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AWE-INSPIRING TO THINK OF THE FACT THAT IT IS TODAY IN PRISTINE CONDITION AND STILL SO BEAUTIFULLY BOUND JUST AS IT WAS IN THE 18th CENTURY DESPITE...
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| 00:22:07 |
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MILLION. $8.7 MILLION. SHE'S BIDDING ALL BY HERSELF. OKAY. $8.7 MILLION. IS THERE ANY ADVANCE? THEN SELLING IF INGING FOR $8.7 MILLION. AND THAT GOES...
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| 00:23:00 |
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TO GO BACK INTO A DRAWER FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS. THAT IT WAS COMING HOME TO MT. VERNON WHERE IT WAS GOING TO BE SHARED WITH SCHOLARS WHO CAN SEE IT FOR...
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| 00:23:37 |
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TO BID AT AUCTION AT CHRISTIE'S IN NEW YORK. AND THE PRICE WAS HIGH, THE VOLUME WE OBTAINED WAS PRICELESS. THIS WAS A VERY SPECIAL BOOK OF GEORGE...
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| 00:26:01 |
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DIED. HE SAID I HAVE NOT HOUSES TO BUILD EXCEPT ONE. TO HOUSE MY MANUSCRIPTS, PAPERS, AND BOOKS, WHICH ARE VOLUMINOUS AND MAY BE OF INTEREST. SO WE...
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| 00:26:27 |
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OBJECT AS A SCHOLAR, BUT YOU UNDERSTAND IT WITHIN CONTEXT. AND THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO UNDERSTAND GEORGE WASHINGTON THAN TO COME TO MT. VERNON WHICH...
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