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The story is amazing but true: Original plans of the World Trade Center were put up for sale at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair… after being found in a trash can.
But how did original plans for the World Trade Center end up in the trash? The story is worthy of a movie. The approximately 500 documents belonged to Joseph Solomon, one of the architects who worked on the World Trade Center project. When she died in 2017, her daughter emptied her house in Denver and got rid of the plans, seeing no point …
Luckily for the World Trade Center and historians: Jake Haas, a Denver flea market specialist, used to doing the city’s trash, discovered the plans. He immediately understood that these were interesting documents.
From the trash can to the auction
The plans then pass from hand to hand. Jake Haas sells them to a Denver pawnshop who in turn sends them to the James Cummins Bookseller. She was the one who organized the sale of the plans.
James Cummins Bookseller did not quote the price. The American chain Fox News specifies for its part that the plans could be worth 250,000 dollars but that the total price could reach a million dollars. No information has filtered since and, if the sale took place, it remained very discreet …
Amy Lee Solomon, Joseph Solomon’s daughter, now hopes to recover part of the proceeds from the sale… The lawyers are at work!
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