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Early Vintage Hollywood Movie Star Autographs & Photo Album

I have 2 vintage photo albums filled with old movie star photos some with authentic looking autographs. There are 560 Photos plus 3 Autograph cards. There is also a page or two with Capitol Records Recording Stars. 62 of the photos are signed on the front with some signed on the back (there are yellow post it notes that indicate these although there might be more. I didn't want to take them all out and check in fear of damaging them. There might be more that are signed but when I was in doubt I erred on the side of caution. There are a lot of felt tip type signatures and most I could see were on top of the photo and not a facsimile signature. Some I just couldn't tell because they looked like it. The scrapbook consists of studio photos, promotional photos, glossies, photo postcards and autograph cards. I did extensive research on these and one website had the same signed photos (except for some that I couldn't make out or they didn't have - 17 total) and their valuation on them (what they were selling them for) was 40K. That did not include ones with facsimile signatures at all or just the regular photos. The site was gallery of history dot com and they are a huge site with a great reputation. I'd prefer to sell this wonderful collection as found instead of piecing it out. Please note that there are some post it notes on some that read "I signed" because she was young and didn't always recognize the actor/actress by sight so she put the name on it herself. These are not included in the autograph count at all. I'm trying to find out what it is worth and would love some help from an expert here.

You can look at my profile and see more info such as the list of names of the signed ones and a list of others in general.

Tags: 1930s, 30s, actors, autograph, autographs, hollywood, movie, photos, signed, star, More…stars, vintage

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Permalink Reply by Emme on February 17, 2011 at 12:20pm

Here's the new photo album with close ups: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-3/1246925/2152159

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Permalink Reply by Emme on February 17, 2011 at 1:14pm

I adored Glenn Ford...you couldn't have gotten me to part with it and Steve is right; great presentation! I think the majority of ones I called unsigned are pre-printed. I've heard some referred to as facsimile signed so I am assuming it is the same thing.

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Permalink Reply by Tricia Eaton on February 17, 2011 at 1:09pm

Hi Emme,

Steve Cyrkin directed me to your post.

I work at RRAuction (rrauction.com).

Feel free to contact me for an appraisal.

Best,

Tricia Eaton

tricia@rrauction.com

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Permalink Reply by Lou reves on February 17, 2011 at 2:14pm

The Roy Rogers Naval aux card is a great one! I cant say I recognize alot of them you have but there are a few good ones!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Klamer on February 22, 2011 at 8:41am

Okay this is just one I did find and it is a stamped signature.

So you can compare this one and see if any others look similar.

Looks like some older through the mail finds and yes some ar authentic and others like this one may be stamped or pre-printed. You will find a lot of the more popular stars like today just don't have the time or take the time to sign through the mail so they had pictures with their signatures printed and there help would mail those out.\