Among the objects on display are the original Stamp Act and the sole copy of Haiti's declaration of independence.
He had previously revealed that in December he spent $2m to buy the sole copy of the band's album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
This is not one of those taxi stories with a happy ending (the sole copy of the manuscript recovered; the priceless Strad delivered in time for the big concert).
At one point, the folklorist Alan Lomax pulled a Russian recording, said to be the sole copy of "Chakrulo" in North America, from a stack of lacquer demos and sailed it across the room to me like a Frisbee.
There were but two questions that occurred to us when we received a press release with the headline, "Want the Chance to Live like a Hilton and Encounter the New York High Life?" 1) Does that mean we get to live in the Waldorf Towers? 2) Would we have the sole copy of any videotapes?
Eventually, it will hold the sole copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the Wu-Tang Clan's eighth and final album, currently in a vault in Marrakech, Morocco, and which is to be offered in a private sale by Paddle8.
As if that weren't enough, he then went on to send a series of fantastically trolly tweets ("50-100 date solicitations a day for me, the world's most eligible bachelor"), get in a well-publicized spat with Bernie Sanders, buy the sole copy of Wu-Tang's $2 million special edition album, and begin a fantastically self-involved YouTube channel.
Wu-Tang and the online auction house Paddle8 have set up a special microsite to handle the private sale of the sole copy of the album, on which RZA explained why the 88-year embargo was being imposed: "When you buy a painting or a sculpture, you're buying that piece rather than the right to replicate it," he explained in a Q&A on the microsite.
The sole copy is housed in an engraved silver-and-nickel box crafted by British Moroccan artist Yahya.
