Tick tock... Your Magna Carta is showing!

I'm so bummed its Monday. Minute by minute the day is slowly passing. However, I'm convinced the clock on my computer has a glitch that makes it skip back 20 minutes for each half hour that passes.

And so as time marches on...slowly... I find my mind wandering and thinking about time. Much like my thoughts on space, I have a real interest in time. It's very intriguing to me to think about things that happened 100, 200 or 1,000 years ago. Even more than thinking about them it's thought provoking to me to see some of the remnants of the things we read about. The Coliseum, the Declaration of Independence, DINOSAUR BONES.

So all this deep thinking reminded me of a news story I heard over the weekend that I thought you'd enjoy. It involves a piece of history that is, well, timeless.

One of the 17 remaining copies of the Magna Carta is going up for auction. Yep THAT Magna Carta. While admittedly I didn't realize before this weekend that there were 17 copies left of it, the founding document of modern democracy, I still find the fact that a private citizen can purchase a copy quite interesting. Of the 17 copies, 15 remain in Great Britain throughout the archives, one is in Australia (I don't know why either) and the last is being sold. The lucky auction house is Sotheby's ((BID) for those of you investors out there). The document will be auctioned on December 18th and is expected to fetch between 20 and 30 million dollars. So while I won't be able to match that (unless that lotto ticket is luckier than it looks) I am very jealous of whomever will end up with it. I mean, talk about a center piece to your art collection.

And what a great ice-breaker for when you have company over!

Hey what's that thing framed in your hallway?
Why, thats the Magna Carta.
By jove!

I'm certainly envious of the winner. He or she will undoubtedly have much to think about each time they pass it by.

And I'm still stuck here, tick, tock, I hate this damn clock.



Once information of the auction is available I'll be sure to update this post with any information I can find.

UPDATE the lucky auction winner was David Rubenstein from the USA. Reported price 21.3 Million USD.