A letter., bearing ilie rare autograph oE Button Gwinnett,-together with the signatures of five other signatories of the Declaration of Independence, -was sold by auction in .New York for. £10,200 after excited bidding. The purchaser,-Dr. A. S. W. Eosenbachj has bought-five other Gwinnett signatures since 1925 at prices ranging from £2900 to £5700. The letter just sold, au order issued on 12th July, 1776, was recently- in an old barn a couple of days before the barn was accidentally burnt. The five, other signatories were John Hancock, Eobert Morris, Francis Lewis, Georg^ Read, and 'Ar« thur Middleton, all members of th^Mwin* .Committee of the. rebellion. ~^>**3?
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 2
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