#2. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: $3.7 Million
Another expensive autograph was given by President Abraham Lincoln.
He signed a total of 48 copies of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1864, out of these, only 26 are known to have survived.
Most of them are displayed in museums and universities, while others were kept by private citizen and politicians.
In 2010, one of the copies surfaced in an auction and was sold for $3.7 million, the highest amount ever paid for a document bearing Lincoln’s signature.
It was sold to an anonymous buyer, and was previously owned by Bobby Kennedy.
And in 1991, another copy sold for $750,000, and in 2012, another signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation sold for $2 million to billionaire David Rubenstein.
via http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/
