What kind of member are you? (Check as many as apply.)

Collector

What would you like to tell us about yourself, your collecting, or business.

I have been collecting historic documents and autographs for 30 years and have now amassed a collection in excess of 500 items as well as a mountain of resource material. Many I have framed together with a portrait of the writer. Some years ago I wrote articles for Autograph Collector mag, one on WWII heroine Odette and also one entitled 'Collecting Down Under'.

What is your level of expertise?

Advanced Collector

Why do you want to join Autograph Live?

Responding to a request to offer an opinion on a set of Beatles signatures.

Who can we thank for telling you about us?

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What are your areas of interest?

Sports, History/Politics, Books/Literature, Classic Hollywood and Stage, Music, Space/Aviation/Military

Why do you collect?

To hold something that has been written by a famous historic person gives me a real buzz and is a definite link with history. Six degrees of separation becomes one degree of separation.

What is your favorite autograph in your collection?

Too many to mention - Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Wellington, Lord Horatio Nelson, Queen Elizabeth I, various US Presidents, Neil Armstrong etc etc

You can ask anyone living or dead for their autograph. Who would it be?

King Henry VIII