Thrift Store Shopping

Stan Caffy paid $10 for an old copy of the Declaration of Independence at a yard sale 10 years ago. His wife recently asked him to clean out the garage and ditch all the junk he'd acquired through the years. He reluctantly took the old copy of the declaration off his garage wall and donated it, along with other odds and ends, to his local thrift store in Nashville. Two days later, Michael Sparks walked into the same thrift store and bought the declaration for $2.48. Turns out the copy happened to be one of 200 that John Quincy Adams commissioned William Stone to make in 1820. The find brings to 36 the known number of said copies still in existence. After a conservationist removed the document from a canvas carrier, remoisterized it, and removed the varnish, Sparks sold it at auction for $477,650.

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