Items of Interest November 21, 2011 Issue

To own a Bible that's gone to the moon

Richard Allen Greene

“Moon Bible goes on sale in auction” Courtesy CNN. September 22, 2011.

A rare Bible that’s been to the moon and back . . . —the complete King James version, framed in gold leaf, is under the hammer at an auction house in New Hampshire.

But whoever takes it home won’t be able to leaf through it. It’s a piece of microfilm, with the text of 1,245 pages shrunken down to the size of a postage stamp.

“It’s the whole King James (Bible) on there. It’s really cool,” says Bobby Livingston, vice president of sales and marketing at RR Auction, which is handling the sale.

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