What Are the Most Valuable Living Celebrity Autographs?

What are the most valuable living celebrity autographs? How much are they worth?

Post your list in full or in part with approximate values.

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Permalink Reply by Big Bad John on May 19, 2015 at 9:17am

My choice for the most valuable living celebrity is Lou Alcindor. Yup, he's still alive and his autograph will cost you a bundle.

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Permalink Reply by James on May 19, 2015 at 4:41pm

If it is something signed "Lou Alcindor", that may be worth a fair amount, although I don't know the particulars. However, if it's signed "Abdul Jabbar", that's not worth enormous bucks. A signed basketball is probably worth around $250 - a healthy amount, but probably wouldn't break the bank.

It's kind of like "Cassius Clay" items are worth much more than "Muhammad Ali" items.

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Permalink Reply by posterguy on August 27, 2016 at 2:04pm

(Randy Poffo sig aka Macho Mans real name would be rare as well....he's been dead 5 yrs so prolly not the best example to use , though :/ )

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Permalink Reply by Jason Poulos on July 2, 2015 at 10:26pm

Doesn't the HOME ALONE actor sell for over 1,000?

MACAULAY CULKIN =)

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Permalink Reply by Robin McKay on August 3, 2015 at 4:15am

I think Macaulay Culkin has loosened up and he's not a strictly no autographs type of guy - he will sign. I guess its a case of right time, right place, but I wouldn't get him signing Home Alone stills as I heard he doesn't sign those.

If it were me, just an album page or a typical 10x8 would do.

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Permalink Reply by Scott W. Arnold on September 12, 2015 at 8:11am

Do we have David Gilmour on the list yet?

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Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on August 30, 2019 at 9:11pm

Not sure how much interest there is in Canadian-based autographs, but I can give some examples based on what I've seen and encountered in the wild:

Margaret Atwood: Modern Atwood can still be found relatively cheap, but a first-edition signed hardcover Handmaid's Tale is going to run you at least $200-300 in decent condition. The holy grail for Atwood enthusiasts is either the true first printing of The Circle Game ($1k CAD+) or one of the original 125 handmade copies of The Journals of Susanna Moodie ($10k CAD+).

Alice Munro: Older Munro can be found for as (in very rare cases) $100 or so, but after she won the Nobel Prize, almost every book associated with her has jumped up to $300-400+. I also have reason to believe there are fakes floating around out there - her signing style tightened up around the early 2000s, and those older books can still push as high as $500+ if it was personalized. She's notoriously shy about signing, doesn't do many author events (she's 88 as of 2019, IIRC) and she lives in a small town in Ontario, Canada.

Sonali Deraniyagala ("Wave"): $125 CAD+ for a first edition copy of her book. From what I understand, she never intended the book to be released (it was basically a journal to begin with), and only did a couple of author signings in the UK and Canada (Ontario), with the latter being a launch event at a Chapters. Very tough to get in good condition.

Michael Ondaatje: Recent Ondaatje is easy to get, but his signature is downright atrocious (basically a glorified squiggle). You're looking at $1k CAD+ if you want a halfway legible full-name signature, which he hasn't really done since the late 80s/early 90s.

Stephen Harper (former Prime Minister): Of the Canadian Prime Ministers of the last twenty (maybe even thirty) years, he is the most difficult PM signature to get by a country mile, with very few legitimate examples of his signature out there in the wild. Possible estimates ranging from $100-300 based on type of item signed - and I also believe there were autopenned compliments sheets he sent out. Notoriously reclusive since leaving office, he's released two books, but as far as I know, neither of them had a proper launch/signing event. Even John Turner (the PM who was only in office for a month) signs more books than him, and he doesn't even go out in public either.