Historical items at auction: What would you like to own?
- December 10, 2010 1:27 PM |
- By POV
By CBC News
Frayed, torn and maybe a little bloodstained, the only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer's "Last Stand" at the Battle of Little Bighorn sold for $54 when it first surfaced in the 1890s.
On Friday, the swallow-tailed 7th U.S. Cavalry standard, known as a guidon, was sold for $2.2 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York. Also up for bids was James Naismith's original Founding Rules of Basketball, including handwritten notes by Naismith about the intricacies of the game, which sold for $4.3 million, Bloomberg reports.
What piece of history would you like to own? Would you keep it for yourself, or would you share it with the public? Let us know what historical or sports artifacts you would bid on at auction (if you could) and what you would do with them, in the comments section below.
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