This article originally appeared in my blog, Steve Zarelli presents: The Collecting Obsession.

James Stewart was a willing through-the-mail signer for many years. However, after suffering medical problems in the 1990s, his office fulfilled mail requests with secretarial signatures and an Autopen machine.

The proxy signatures -- typically signed "James…

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Signed photo, signed basketball, jersey i'm looking thanks.

For the last 15 years or I've I have loved Upper Deck and thought they were the best autograph company in the game. They had to be didn't they? All their items are signed in person. They have a 5 step gaurentee.

Growing up I purchased a lot of photos by them ( I had to have the real thing and photos were all I could afford). As a huge Michael Jordan fan I needed some of his items but it took me a very long time to get any.

As I got older and earned more money I started building my… Continue

As I'm unemployed I've decided to sell all my Signed Photos Collection. To start it, I'm doing my first experience with RR Auctions, (www.rrauction.com), where I'm selling some items:

Item #               Item

• 766         Beatles: John Lennon -- SP
• 1115       Sharon Tate -- SP
• 790         Thelonious Monk -- Program
• 683         Andy Warhol -- SP
• 709         Maria…

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Over the past few months I have noted an explosion of this James Stewart signature style on eBay. It seems as if some sellers have an endless supply of these signatures and they all have the same unusual characteristics.

• A sharp, "jerky" appearance
• Letters smashed together with poor letter definition
• Odd spacing between letters
• Never personalized
• Many of them do not appear to be on glossy photos... they are on cardstock prints

I…

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I never watch Jay Leno, because he's really not that funny or good at what he does; but Dave Letterman has been repeats all week.

Well, Justin Timberlake was promoting Social Network (a great movie, if you haven't seen it yet). Leno set him up, getting him to talk about the Lakers and how they'd go all the way and win it all. He then brought out Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat (the team that recently won the LeBron James Sweepstakes).

Bosh gave him a jersey, and…

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The other night, David Letterman did a bit before Kevin James (King of Queens) came out. He's done it a few times before, but not recently. He talks to the ghost of Bob Hope. And who ever does the voice of Hope, nails it.

This time, when Hope was signing off, he asked Letterman to get Kevin James to sign his DVD of Paul Blart. I literally laughed so loud, I woke up my girlfriend up.

On TMZ, speaking of Kevin James, they showed all the cast members of Grown Ups…

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