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Constitution Of The United States.

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6results on record
100%sell-through
$4,500median result (USD, incl. premium; 100% observed, 0% estimated from hammer)
$7,575record in our coverage

Drawn from 6 recorded results (6 sold · 0 passed) across 1 auction house, 2018–2023. What we cover

Median sold price by year typical estimate range median result USD, incl. premium; 100% observed, 0% estimated from hammer method · log scale

$2.2K$4.3K$6.5K2018: $5.2K median, 3 sold2020: $7.6K median, 1 sold2021: $3.2K median, 1 sold2023: $230 median, 1 sold201820192020202120222023

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$4.5K$230$7.6K

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Compared with [franklin, Benjamin. 1706-1790.] Constitution Of The United States. [franklin, Benjamin. 1706-1790.]

$24K$47K$71K2010: $1.2K median2012: $875 median2014: $1.6K median2015: $11K median2016: $14K median2018: $6.2K median2019: $3.6K median2021: $88K median2023: $672 median2024: $11K median2026: $1.9K median2018: $5.2K median2020: $7.6K median2021: $3.2K median2023: $230 median20102014201820222026
MetricConstitution Of The United States.[franklin, Benjamin. 1706-1790.]
Median result$4,500$2,375
Record price $7,575 $187,812
Results on record637
Years active at auction 2018–2023 2010–2026

Related artists: [franklin, Benjamin. 1706-1790.]Shackleton, Ernest. 1874-1922.Lincoln, Abraham. 1809-1865.Darwin

Prices realized 6 recorded lots — sold, passed, and upcoming — results in USD incl. premium; est. marks a premium estimated from the house's schedule

DateLotMediumvs. estimateEstimate USDResult USD, incl. premiumHouse
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2023·06 YATES, ROBERT, compiler. Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention assembled at Philadelphia, in the year 1787, for the purpose of forming the Constitution of U.S Albany: Websters and Skinners, 1821. $200–$300 Bonhams
2021·12 The Evening Chronicle. Vol 2, no 90. Philadelphia: printed by Robert Smith, September 18, 1787. $3,000–$5,000 Bonhams
2020·03 Constitucion Federal de los Estados-Unidos de América, con dos discursos del General Washington. Mexico: Martin Rivera, 1823. $6,000–$8,000 Bonhams
2018·09 The Constitution or Frame of Government for the United States of America. As Reported by the Convention of Delegates, from the United States, begun and held at Philadelphia on the first Monday of May, 1787, and continued by Adjournments to the seventeenth. Boston: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, [1788]. $1,000–$1,500 Bonhams
2018·09 The Constitutions of the United States, According to the Latest Amendments. Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart and Co, 1791. $1,000–$1,500 Bonhams
2018·09 Collection of 11 documents including letters and broadsides from various States Legislatures regarding a proposed Constitutional amendment on naturalization, $1,000–$1,500 Bonhams

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