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Here’s the story of my 1790 KJV Bible:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2008 my family and I were visiting friends in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. My friend Ed and I decided to escape the noise of the house (6 kids and our 2 wives) and do what guys like us love to do. No, not sneak out to a sports bar to watch a game and have a beer! We headed for the used book stores in search a rare or hard to find biblical books\u2014something you never have enough of!<\/p>\n

We came to this old bookstore with several floors of musty smelling books. Let me emphasize the word musty<\/em>! I checked out the religious section and found nothing I couldn’t live without. I then went down into the basement where there multiple piles of thousands of old books that weren’t even shelved or catalogued. After checking the shelves along the perimeter and finding nothing, I began quickly scanning the stacks of old books laying on tables that were covering the entire center of the floor of the basement. It would have been impossible to read so many titles quickly, so I simply programmed my eyes to look for anything that looked old.<\/p>\n

Suddenly in the middle of one pile, an old book caught my eye. I wondered if it might be a Bible. I dug it out, and sure enough it was. I looked for a publishing date, and found some Roman numerals. It’s not often that I have to read Roman numeral dates, and at first I thought it said 1740. Wow! I thought. This is way cool.<\/p>\n

I grabbed the book and headed upstairs to the counter. The clerk told me that the Bible’s date was 1790 and that I could have it for $125. “Deal,” I said, and out I went with my new treasure. It’s a KJV Bible from England, and when it was printed, George Washington had been the president of the United States for just one year.<\/p>\n

A couple of years later, I had a friend restore the Bible. Here are the before and after photos. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Before Restoration<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After Restoration<\/strong><\/p>\n

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