Rare copy of US Declaration resurfaces
Precious document is one of 200 exquisite facsimiles made in Washington in 1820s for founding father James Madison
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DURING the US Civil War, the precious document was hidden behind wallpaper in a home in Virginia to keep Union soldiers from finding it.
Later, it sat in a closet in Kentucky, in a broken frame, unappreciated and stored in a cardboard box. And later still it was stuck behind a cabinet in the office of an energy executive outside Houston.
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