Ye Very Olde English Item Up for Auction

oe_800.JPGHave an empty wall space that just needs some kind of … I don’t know … iconic ancient legal document-ish treatment? A mere $30 million could get you one of the 1297 copies of the Magna Carta. (And they’ll throw in a frame, I bet.) Billionaire Ross Perot’s foundation tells Bloomberg News it will sell its copy of the 2,500-word English document in mid-December through Sotheby’s.

The copy of the English document, which was originally drafted and signed in 1215 and which laid the foundations for English political and civil liberties, was reportedly bought by Perot in 1984 for $1.5 million.


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