Would you like a bag for that Declaration of Independence?

Michael Sparks was shopping in a thrift store in Nashville last March. He noticed a “yellowed, shellacked, rolled-up document”. Upon asking the clerk “how much?”, the clerk labeled it $2.48.

Through a little research online Michael learned that the old document he bought happened to be 1 of 200 official copies of the Declaration of Independence commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820.

The document is up for auction on March 22nd with an opening bid of $125,000 and is expected to go for at least twice that.

When asked to comment, the clerk that sold the Declaration continuously smacked himself in the face.