The general public have been given the chance to own a page or two of one of the most important books of the last 200 years, with shares up for grabs in Charles Darwin’s ‘On The Origin Of Species’.
Valued at £275,000 at auction, this first edition is popularly known as the ‘most influential academic book ever written’ and is now available for people to grab a piece of for just a few notes due to fractional ownership. Showpiece, the collectables platform has divided ownership of of the tome into 5,500 pieces which people will be able to purchase for £50 and with a surge in early sales, there are now only just over half of the pieces left for purchase.
And what’s more, Darwin-related collectibles are now in high demand. Recent and upcoming auctions have seen a journal sold for over £300,000, his microscope for £600,000. It is also expected that a signed manuscript will fetch up to as much as £700,000.
