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Show You don't have to be a writer to enjoy these facts about signatures: The highest price ever paid for a signature on the open market was $100,000 for a brief receipt signed by Button Gwinnett (1732-77), (1732-77), one of the 56 signatories signa-tories to the Declaration of Independence. An expense account by Paul Revere, dated Jan. 3, 1774 and signed by John Hancock, was auctioned for $70,000 at Sotheby Park Bernet in New York City. The greatest feat of autographing was performed by L.E. Chittenden who, in 48 hours in March of 1863, signed 12,500 bonds worth , $10 million. |