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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 28, 2021 at 9:07pm

Hi Marcello,

I moved this to our Is This Autograph Real? forum since it needs authenticating. If the autographs are real, and there's a good chance, I think it would sell for $2,500+. Perhaps a lot more unless a number of them were signed.

RRAuction.com has gotten great money for rare Silicon Valley autographs and artifacts. They know how to market them. Be sure to talk to while you're deciding what to do.

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Permalink Reply by Marcello Savoca on March 1, 2021 at 11:38am

Hello Steve,

thank you for the warm welcome and for moving the message to the right forum.

I'll be interesting to see what everybody thinks about the authenticity, it will definitively help setting the fair market price.

I'll be waiting for the forum feedback before disclosing the reason why I believe it is authentic, not to spoil the forum judgemental process.

As per the number of boxes around, I believe this special edition includes the first 200 boxes, and I find it very hard to believe another one with 4 signatures exists and is still around after 25 years.

Also, thank you for the RRAuction info, I took a fast look at the website and they see the right ones to place it, I need to figure out how to do the whole thing from Rome, Italy, but that comes after reading whether everybody agrees or not this is an actual Billg signature.

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Permalink Reply by Equilibrity on December 9, 2021 at 9:14am

Yesterday a Bill Gates autographed mouse went for about $1600 on rrauction.com with more than 20 bids. This one (which looks authentic to my unskilled eyes) is especially interesting because Ballmer has become noteworthy for reasons other than Microsoft - he owns professional sports teams now. The other autographs are poorly articulated which would impact cost, but it's also interesting that the signatures are on a Microsoft product. I agree with Steve that it would go for somewhere in the mid-$2000 range.

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Permalink Reply by Bryan on December 9, 2021 at 11:34am

Would indeed be an interesting item if real, Ballmer and Gates (who I believe are no longer in contact with each other) are rarely seen signed together. I can't say I'm sold on it being real though

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Permalink Reply by Marcello Savoca on December 9, 2021 at 8:15pm

Thanks for you comments, I've indeed been quite busy these months and almost forgot I had this box in a closet...

I'm obviously more than sure it's real (I've personally collected the signatures off their hands at a MS sales meeting) but that's worth nothing, I understand it.

Would you suggest any way to have it certified? I hold proof I was a MS employee at the time, does that help?

It's time for me to get rid of it but I'm not a collector and know nothing about this world.

thank you

marcello

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