BBC News takes note of an auction that unfurled the other day - Francis Scott Key's poem.
From the article...
It is the only first edition of the poem in private hands, and one of just 11 that exist, Christie's New York auction house said.
Francis Scott Key wrote a first draft of the poem in September 1814.
He was inspired after witnessing the defense of Baltimore's Fort McHenry against a British bombardment.
The poem was set to music and publisher Thomas Carr rushed the song to print. It was finally adopted as the US national anthem in 1931.
Christie's expert Chris Coover said that since the poem's publication it had "become in the intervening years an absolute true icon of American history and patriotism".
You can learn more about Fort McHenry, here.
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