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This is a Christmas card from the collection of a famous Finnish autograph hunter Uncle Eric (more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Rapo), owner of one of the largest in-person music related autograph collections in Northern Europe. He collected thousands of autographs - especially musicians & bands in Finland but also in England and in Sweden.

Uncle Eric was famous of getting signatures to any possible paper/magazine/item he was having. Sometimes it was an old Christmas card, sometimes an old pizza menu, an old receipt or any piece of paper which just happened to be near him or in his pockets.

The item below is a good example of Uncle Eric's dedication to in-person autographs - no matter what the item to be signed was. This is a Christmas card which was mailed to him by local mail in Finland in 1987 by one of his Finnish friends.

For some reason Eric kept that Christmas card in his pocket and showed it to Leonard Cohen in April 1988 when he met Mr. Cohen during his concert visit to Helsinki House of Culture.

Mr. Cohen wrote his message on the card: "Dear Eric - Happy New Year from Leonard Cohen". BUT that was not enough for Eric. Later this Christmas card has also been signed by someone else. That person has written "To Eric; You are a friend - I'll try to help you with your requests - Happy New Year from you friend....."

But who would that last person be. It looks like Arlo Guthrie to me but I guess that some of you dear experts could have a better knowledge about it.

(I have this of them in my own collection as I bought most of the items from Uncle Eric's collection in 2005 at an auction here in Helsinki after his death.)

Tags: Finland, Leonard_Cohen, Uncle_Eric

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That is Arlo Guthrie's autograph.

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