Have you ever had an autograph that, in retrospect, you wish you had bought? I have over the years. One that seems to haunt me was in my very early years of collecting. There was an auction barn (literally), and they had a store of things that had not sold at auction. They would have various documents, letters, stamps, and the occasional autographed photograph. It was about 1972, and I was in junior high school. I bought a World War II Disney card that was signed by various stars, including Ray Bolger and Charles Coburn. I found, along with a bunch of V-Mail Letters (that I wish I had bought now). I purchased the card for $3.50 and have it stored somewhere so safely that I have not seen it in years. I happened to notice on one of the posts was a framed letter in one of those thin, black wooden frames. The letter was written in dark pencil in a very neat hand. At the bottom was "Thomas A. Edison," with a big flourish at the top of the "T." It was to a lady who lived in upstate New York, and many of the autographs and regular letters were addressed to her. I do not recall the content of the letter now, but it was a response to something she had written to him about. A small white sticker on the bottom corner of the glass said $50. Of course, I didn't have anywhere near that amount on me. About a month later, I went back and had enough to pay for that, along with the sales tax. I spent a good fifteen minutes studying it. I almost bought it, then second-guessed myself. There was a lot I could buy with $50, and I have never been overly fond of pencil autographs. So, I put it back and walked away. I didn't go back over there for about six months, as it was several miles away in a neighboring county. I went to where the autograph had hung, and of course, it was gone. I ended up buying some autographs that I still have, including a Jay Gould ALS, but I still think about that Edison autograph.