Barrie Robinson wrote:
>
> Oh well! - as a fully paid up Colonialist (note - not a colonist!) I have
> to give a piece of trivia!
>
> At the time the Declaration was not regarded as very important, this
> emphazised by the fact that the signatories were allowed to decay by there
> own populace. But did you know that an original copy of the Declaration
> was found hanging on a Post Office wall in some small town sometime in the
> 50s to 70s !!!!!!!
>
and that this week, perhaps that same document was sold at auction for
over 8 (eight) Million dollars!
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Frank U
59 Ford Consul MKII 'lowline' convertible
http://members.aol.com/funder770/home.htm
Atlanta GA USA (well sort of...)
oh yeah a '79 Spitfire 1500 project too!
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