Dixie map dividing North and South could fetch $1.2M

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA hand-drawn map of the Mason-Dixon Line could sell Thursday for as much as one point two million dollars, and the New York Post calls it perhaps the most consequential map in American history.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's seventy-six inches long and six and a half inches tall, on linen-backed paper. That's a very elegant divide.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBrunk Auctions in Asheville estimates eight hundred thousand to one point two million dollars for an anonymous seller, and it's a livestreamed sale.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBid from your couch, America!

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the survey was only meant to settle a border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the whole country got split over a fence argument?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call it a boundary clarification initiative, Chip, and look how well it held.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBrunk says the Library of Congress was told the map was returning to the market, and its budgets meant it couldn't buy it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe national archive has a budget. I think that's lovely, they're being so transparent about it.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWho's it going to, then?

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhoever has the best wifi on Thursday.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Library said it couldn't afford the divide, so a stranger will probably win it while bidding on a lamp.