When media reports of the card sent the bid price escalating by more than 500 per cent, the Tories stopped bidding. "We were prepared to take a modest risk on this piece with no provenance,'' said Conservative party spokesman Ryan Sparrow. She said got the card in a large lot she purchased at a private auction in Massachusetts, run by a dealer who has been in business for over 35 years.Īmong the early bidders for the Macdonald signature was the Conservative Party of Canada, Macdonald's party. "This is the biggest sale, and it's just amazing!'' "I start all my auctions at 99 cents,'' Kelley told The Canadian Press from her Massachusetts home Tuesday night. Patti Kelley said she couldn't believe her eyes as the auction wound down and the price skyrocketed in the last 10 seconds by $3,000. "I thought that it would end up going for a lot higher than what it did.''īut that amount suited the card's owner just fine. "I honestly didn't think that I would actually be able to be in a position to be able to afford it,'' Kelly said. Kelly spent a whopping $7,850 on the as yet-to-be-authenticated signature - a price he said he thought would be higher. The card was put up for auction on eBay last week by a woman in Worcester, Mass., and the highest bidder on Tuesday night turned out to be the 31-year-old Ottawa resident. The "it" is a card bearing what is believed to be the signature of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. TORONTO - Jason Kelly said it was his duty as a Canadian to bring it back home.
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