PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A copy of U.S. President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation that once belonged to Robert Kennedy could fetch more than $1 million, auctioneers predicted.
Sotheby's will put the document on the auction block Dec. 10 in Philadelphia, where it could bring as much as $1.5 million, The Philadelphia Inquirer said Sunday.
The copy is one of scores signed by Lincoln in 1864 and sold at the Philadelphia Great Central Fair as part of a benefit program for wounded soldiers.
Kennedy was U.S. attorney general and a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement when he bought the copy at an estate sale in the 1960s for $9,500, the newspaper said.
The copy will be auctioned after it goes on public display in Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
"This is an opportunity for people to see this great document," said Kim Sajet, president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. "It's fascinating that (Robert F. Kennedy) owned a copy and that he -- like so many other people -- was so intrigued by it. It stirs such emotion."
