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The Holy Grail of autographs?

I was hoping to start a thread about the modern-day "Holy Grail" of autographs. Who is that, in your opinion? Who is the person (celeb/athlete/musician) who is the hardest autograph to score, someone totally elusive? (Perhaps they didn't use to be as difficult.) And then, spinning slightly off that theme, who are the people who are not only known as "hard to get" but those who you have also had oh-so-close calls with?

Any thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by James on August 21, 2018 at 6:56pm

I haven’t read through this entire discussion yet, but here is one test many people may not have considered very much. And let me first state that I am NOT a fan of this person. Who am I talking about? Why none other than Count Vlad. VLADIMIR PUTIN that is. I don’t know if he is a difficult autograph to obtain in Russia, but I’ve only seen one supposedly authentic example on eBay, authenticated by JSA with an asking price of $10,000.

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Permalink Reply by Smxx777 on August 22, 2018 at 2:34am

Being a russian guy, I can honestly say that Vladimir Putin is a good signed. BUT. The problem is - his security team is supertough. If you'll be in one venue with Putin and able to stand somewhere not far from him - he will sign indeed.

P.S.: I don't have Putin's sig, but I have Michael Gorbachev's sig on the book about Perestroyka - he signed it to me personally in 2008) He was supernice about it, but first checked - what I gave him to sign.

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Permalink Reply by Todor on August 21, 2018 at 8:50pm

My 2 "Holy Grails" are Ritchie Blackmore and Robert Fripp.

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Permalink Reply by Smxx777 on August 22, 2018 at 2:36am

Also got both of them, 2 Fripp's signs. Despite the stories about "grumpy misanthropes" - I had very nice contact with both of them, especially Fripp, who was a bit posh, but thanked me for coming to his show in Vienna.