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July 01, 2005: Business Week Says Western Americana is Hot
"Also hot are rare books, maps, and historical documents. Last year a copy of Texas' Declaration of Independence from Mexico sold for $764,000. And on June 21 several Old West items owned by Philadelphia businessman Jay Snider, 47, went for top dollar at Christie's. Included was a three-volume first edition of an 1840s book of portraits of Native Americans, mainly by the artist Charles Bird King, that sold for $156,000, above the top estimates."
