George Washington's constitution to be auctioned at Christie's books and manuscripts sale

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George Washington's signature is seen.  AP Photo/Alex Brandon. By: Sarah Parnass, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP).- George Washington's 223-year-old copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights are expected to go for bids of $2 million to $3 million at auction next week. The documents are bound in a book that contains notes in Washington's handwriting, including notations of the responsibilities of the president. The book was displayed for reporters at a hotel in the nation's capital on Tuesday. Christie's auction house plans to offer the documents to bidders on June 22 in New York. Thomas Lecky, head of Christie's books and manuscripts department, called the book "certainly on the one hand of great things" to have passed through the auction house in his time. This copy of the Constitution, bound by Thomas Allen of New York in 1789, was one of a set of ... More