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Permalink Reply by Peter C. on June 21, 2012 at 8:23am

I would say that investment is each "person" who is admired by people more than one generation... Everyone who is well known for you and is going to be well known for your children or grandchild, or in oposite direction - who you know and was well known for your grandparents. :)

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 21, 2012 at 10:02am

It might not be a bad idea to focus in on nicer vintage examples of stars who are still living.  The Pacino autograph you showed me was a good example.

I confess to being a full-throttle U2 dork, but my friends and I were gushing about this piece.  It is a rarity to find autographs from this time period, and I thought it was a solid investment piece.  Although all 4 members of the band are alive, active and signing (well, not Mullen so much), signatures that look like this are decidedly a bit more uncommon.  I'm fairly confident that this is from December of 1980, which would have meant the band just got to the US for the first time. 

http://rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=723

 

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 21, 2012 at 11:20am

Absolutely, that's the tradeoff.  Great vintage example, but it's only on a piece of paper.  No one had any U2 albums at this point!  The band was just starting to introduce the U.S. to Boy.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 21, 2012 at 11:51am

It would have been really interesting to see where the price would have gone if the signatures were on a copy of Boy or U23.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on June 21, 2012 at 12:02pm

I saw a real oddity a few years ago.  Someone on ebay was selling an old U2 item from (I think) the late 70's signed by "Paul Vox."  It didn't look like a blatant fake, but no one really knew what to do with it.  I'm not sure that it got any bids.  Even if it was legit, I guess the tradeoff of having something really unique would be that it scares everyone away.

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