Workers at a Goodwill in South Jersey were in for a nice surprise when they found somebody had dropped off framed pages of a 1774 edition of the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser, according to a report from KGW8.

The pages are from the Dec. 28, 1774 edition of the Philadelphia newspaper, which proudly displays the iconic “Unite or Die” snake design inspired by Benjamin Franklin.

The frayed pages have three items by John Hancock, then president of the Provincial Congress. These plead for the Colonies to fight back against the enemies trying to divide them.

According to Bob Snyder of the Cohasco auction house, the rebel paper shows how mad everybody was at the British just before the Revolutionary War began.

“These were very important propaganda tools,” he said. “The viciousness then in some was as much or more as it is today.” However “the language was more powerful.”

Snyder estimates its value at between $6,000 and $16,000. Goodwill Industries is hoping to use the funds to help finance its educational and job-training services.

Three more copies of the same weekly edition of the newspaper are housed in university collections.

Read more about the historic find from KGW8 by clicking here.