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Copy of the Bill of Rights, Looted During Civil War, Lands “Antiques Roadshow” Guy in Hot Water


— April 22, 2003

Stolen from North Carolina by a Union soldier during Sherman’s “march to the sea” in 1865, the copy of the Bill of Rights has surfaced twice before, only to disappear again. Now North Carolina has it back, and Antiques Roadshow appraiser Wayne Pratt — who offered to sell it — is in trouble. Or is he? The Christian Science Monitor has the story here.


Stolen from North Carolina by a Union soldier during Sherman’s “march to the sea” in 1865, the copy of the Bill of Rights has surfaced twice before, only to disappear again. Now North Carolina has it back, and Antiques Roadshow appraiser Wayne Pratt — who offered to sell it — is in trouble. Or is he? The Christian Science Monitor has the story here.

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