ADVISORY/SOTHEBYS.COM: Independence to Be Declared in San Francisco, Thursday, June 1, from 2 p.m.News Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (June 1) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Media Invited to View "Most Important Printed Piece of Paper in the World," Estimated at $4 Million to $6 Million Document Was Originally Discovered in Back of Picture Frame Bought at a Flea Market See computer flea market. flea market yard sale of used items at low prices. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Inexpensiveness for $4 SOTHEBYS.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. will be making Internet history when this highly important first printing of the Declaration of Independence is offered for sale online. On Thursday, June 1, from 2 p.m., this rare document will be on exhibition to the media in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden at Sotheby's office at 214 Grant Ave., Suite 350. Bidding will take place exclusively online at WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. .SOTHEBYS.COM, June 29, 2000, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT .
WHAT: Official first printing of Declaration of
Independence, printed on night of July 4, 1776
WHO: David Redden -- Sotheby's vice chairman and head of
the Books and Manuscripts Division, who describes the
Declaration as "the most important printed piece of
paper in the world" -- available for interview.
WHERE: Sotheby's office
214 Grant Ave., Suite 350
San Francisco
WHEN: Thursday, June 1
from 2 p.m.
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