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How to sell an autograph book
I have inherited an autograph book with signatures brom the 1840's tru the 1880's, mostly of poets and a couple of Presidents. How would I go about valuating and selling this? I have Googled each name, atleast the ones I can decipher, and believe they are authentic ( a couple do not look quite the same as on google but believe it might be due to changes in signature over the years). I can also trace ownership of book to original owner. Here is a list of most of the ledgible and more famous ones along with what was written by each signature. I can post up scanned pictures of book and pages.
Autograph book of Josie ? Dippo Hudson Wisconsin
Dates in book range from Feb 3 1848 to 1880s
First page Dear Josie a merry Christmas from your sister Bob December 25 1877 Book maybe be a gift from her sister, or just a Christmas greeting written in the book.
L M Alcott Do the duty that lies nearest thee. Goethe
A Tenneson June 20th O Love, they die in you rich sky, They faint on hill, or field or river: Our echoes from soul to soul, And ? for ever & for ever,. Blow, high?, blow; set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes answer, dying , dying, dying.
John Howard Payne Poem entitled Sweet Home
Henry W Longfellow Cambridge December 8 Poem
Samuel F Smith Our Father’s God to thee
John G Whittier poem
Abraham Lincoln November 19 1963 That government of the people, by the people by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
William Cullen Bryant poem
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jan21st 1865 poem
Samuel Woodworth Poem entitled The Bucket
James T Fields - Poem
Edgar A Poe
Bayard Taylor - a saying
Charles Reade
Washington Irving
William Makepeace Thacheray Philadelphia April 11
George Bancroft
R B Hayes (Rutherford B Hayes) July 20th 1877 “One Country One Constitution One Destiny”
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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Sounds like it may be a book of quotes with printed autographs. Please post some images, including Lincoln and Poe.
Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Bill Panagopulos on
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Sounds like a printed edition...
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Permalink Reply by Stacey Eaton on
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Here are some scaned pages.
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Scan 18.pdf, 963 KB -
Scan 9.pdf, 142 KB
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Scan 16.pdf, 732 KB
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Thank you guys. I appreciate your analysis of the autograph book. Guess this means I should not be ordering that new Corvette.
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Hi Stacey, unfortunately you can tell by the ink in the writing that these signatures and quotations were machine or engraving imprinted onto the album pages, and not actually written by the individuals. Sorry, if authentic it would have been a very nice collection. Jeff
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Stacey,
Hate to say it, but I agree. The signatures were printed in the book.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on
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That is interesting I remember a few years ago a lady in Pennsylvania showed me a similar autograph album that also had Lincoln and Poe's signatures among others that i now cannot recall.
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