"Thanks, again --- glancing at one of the piles of letters I have to hand, it's clear that some are handwritten and signed, some come from secretaries (and admit to it), while others could go be, as you note, typed and then signed…"
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"DEAR JOHN" originals: How do I value 300 very personalised autographed letters --- from Pete Townshend of The Who to Margaret Thatcher...
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Hi,[I'm new here so please forgive any unintended infelicities - I stumbled upon the site & the impressively friendly 'vibe' encouraged me to join...]I have three big 'lumps' of…Continue
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"I bought this program in 1984 at the event. This letter was sent peronally from Jackie Gleason - read the content. Signed by Sydell Spear. If he'd use a seretary for that letter why not for other things of less importance? I'm not knocking…"
"In 1976 had he wrote Jackie Gleason with a question John would have recieved a lovely long letter - typed and signed by Sydell Spear - Personal Assistant. These secretarials did not start being identfied until 2010 or so. Before then all were…"
"Good points, thanks, Eric. Underlining my problem of how to dispose of this vast and eclectic array of materials without spending the rest of my life doing it!"
""...as are the letters clearly handwritten or produced by individuals in their own hand, often on their private headed notepaper...."
This is true of secretarials (humans not machines). Unless you have vetted each signature by having it…"
"Ah, thanks Eric---I'm presuming you mean "the signed on behalf of" or automated "signature stamps"? These are very clear - we were all still a bit more 'Downton Abbey' in those days i.e. transparent in an old…"
"...indeed, published, and effectively impeccable?...
Well, how do you know the secretarials were weeded out?"
"DEAR JOHN" originals: How do I value 300 very personalised autographed letters --- from Pete Townshend of The Who to Margaret Thatcher...
Hi,[I'm new here so please forgive any unintended infelicities - I stumbled upon the site & the impressively friendly 'vibe' encouraged me to join...]I have three big 'lumps' of autograph/signature related stuff/work, two involving hundreds of signatures, and one an extraordinary mystery. But I'll start with a simple (-ish!) bit from the first, and see how it goes...DEAR JOHN:I have around 300 autographs from well-known (British) people of the mid-1970s - together with their favourite…See More
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- In the mid-70s I collected a lot of UK-based famous people's autographs *and their favourite quotations*, eventually published as Dear John, a bestseller, with some of the proceeds going to charities. (An American copy of the idea was called "Dear Scott") I'm now selling or 'gifting' the originals (far more interesting than the book!), again with some of the proceeds going to charity, and would really value your communities' advice/insights/ideas/&c.! I have a much weirder story --- a 500 year old box, scratch-engraved by a famous writer &c. --- but that can wait! Also a military/aviation project of my father's, again a big long thing on which some ideas would be welcome...
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- None, I'm sorry: I found you in a search (a list of 7 best dealers) and the comments were so engagingly friendly I thought: why not start there?
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- As above --- it has a nice 'vibe' as far as I can see!
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- What are your areas of interest?
- Classic Hollywood and Stage, History/Politics, Space/Aviation/Military, Books/Literature
- Why do you collect?
- Originally to get a single autograph --- which I got after the book was published. Because these are 'moments etched in time' & leave a palimpsest of a kind as a result...
- What is your favorite autograph in your collection?
- Hmmm... David Niven, still, I think.
- You can ask anyone living or dead for their autograph. Who would it be?
- Bill Shakespeare!
- What is today's date?
- March 18, 2022
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