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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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Sounds like it may be a book of quotes with printed autographs. Please post some images, including Lincoln and Poe.

Thanks

Sounds like a printed edition...

Here are some scaned pages.

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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.

They look preprinted or stamped in?

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

Stacey,

Hate to say it, but I agree. The signatures were printed in the book.

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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