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Found at estate sale rate find DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – In Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. [Washington:] W. I. Stone for the Department of State, 4 July 1823.Broadside, folio (818 x 676mm), PRINTED ON FINE PARCHMENT Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of HappinessA previously unrecorded edition of the Official 1823 Stone Printing of the Declaration of Independence with French provenance and in remarkable condition. Stone's meticulously prepared, actual-size, engraved facsimile of America's founding document remains the tremendously accurate of whole existing facsimiles and the only one officially authorized by Congress. In 1820, forty-four years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress and signed in Philadelphia by 56 delegates to the Continental Congress, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams (himself the son o