YEAR IN REVIEW 2025: WHAT WERE YOUR TOP GETS? MISSES? & HOPES FOR 2026

*****YEAR IN REVIEW 2025: WHAT WERE YOUR TOP GETS? MISSES?*****

Wanted to start as always by thanking our founder Steve Cyrkin, Admin for this wonderful site!

I'm up to, and thankful for all my 105 Friends here, and so appreciate everybody's contributions in this community to help build our collections in this Autograph hobby we all so love.

As 2025 comes to a close, it's time again for:

*****YEAR IN REVIEW 2025: WHAT WERE YOUR TOP GETS? MISSES?*****

If you all will kindly allow me to go first here's

*****MY GETS: (In no apparent order):

.Anthony Hopkins (He is a classical pianist and composer)

.Michael J Fox (autographed my Back To The Future 40th Anniversary 345 Guitar)

.Robert Plant

.David Gilmour

.Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson

.Pat Benatar

.Lionel Richie

.Elton John (someone gave me one of the "EJ" initialled "Who Believes"..is this even a GET?)

.Priscilla Presley

*****MY MISSES:

None this year, our awesome community shared some incredible finds and I got all the ones that personally interested me !

This year, again, I maintained my promise to my wife and Jason H that I was pulling back on purchasing, as my autograph collection now completely fills the walls in my Music/Autograph room!

*****HOPES FOR 2026:

.Elvis Presley - but it's gotta be amazing like Steve Cyrkin, Admin 's, and authenticated by

roger epperson, and no wannabe authenticators!

.Axl Rose - at a reasonable price, not the junk filled comic book "Appetite" collection.

.Roger Waters - at a reasonable price, maybe nice and simple like a CD, but not a large Boxset.

So...now it's your turn.... 2025: WHAT WERE YOUR TOP GETS? MISSES?

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year...See you in 2026 !!!

JIMMY JAMES

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Permalink Reply by eddy 12 hours ago

My favorite "get" this year may be this annotated TLS (and original mailing envelope) from legendary escape artist/illusionist Harry Houdini from 1925.

Houdini sent this from the US to fellow magician Will Goldstone across the pond and references his then-obsessive battle with the Spiritualists who were preying on grieving people hoping to contact the dead. Houdini made it a crusade to expose the fakes who were preying on innocent folks being taken in by this activity which had a mania in the 20s following the human loss of life particularly as a result of the Great War and the Influenza epidemic.

Also accompanying the letter and envelope is the clipping Houdini references in his letter which has descriptions of Houdini himself, Goldstone and other magicians then currently popular.