Now, being an autograph auctioneer really doesn't have anything to do with this, but about eight blogs here are from one collector shilling material he's offering in a competing New England auction house. Competition is good.

So...with that thought in mind and realizing that private advertising through blogs is now OK on this website, I'd like the Autograph Magazine Live community to know that I'm now offering firewood at $150/cord, dumped (not stacked), within 20 miles of Stamford,…

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The other day, the following walked into our office. Thought this might make an interesting diversion from signed photos of Snookie and "The Situation".

Here's the catalog description, which I've edited for brevity: 

The solid cast brass desk set owned and used by Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler and all the other signatories in the signing of the Munich Pact…

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    I have plenty of favorite movie scenes..."Call me Ishmael...Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...Frenchie, this could be the beginning of a beautiful frienship...", and so on.

 

     My favorites of late:…

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While perusing eBay listings today, I ran across the seller "patriotsfan10" who seems to have been a pretty regular customer at R&R and Heritage...and now they need to ban him!

This cretin has made a habit of buying complete historic letters of famous Americans and then cutting them to bits so he can sell one and two word segments on eBay!

Just look at a typical description:

Quote:…

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Here's a question bound to stir up some more controversy on this site. I suppose the best way to put my question forth is by way of example:

Dealer Joe Schmoe provides his time to PU Authenticators, a publicly held firm, by viewing historic artists' autographs on their behalf. His job is to determine whether an item is authentic or not. When he "passes" an item, the owner is charged a fee by PU and in turn receives a certificate signed by Schmoe. In exchange for his…

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As promised, Part II of “Buying and Selling at Auction—A Primer”

You can read Part I here.

I started the first part of this series discussing how new collectors may confidently select auction houses and the importance and benefits in previewing the material to be bid upon. Now let’s take a look at the most…

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By way of introduction, I'm Bill Panagopulos, founder and president of Alexander Autographs, Inc., an autograph auction house in Stamford, Ct. (www.alexautographs.com) established almost twenty years ago when I took my passion for collecting Civil War autographs and decided to grow it into an auction house devoted to the sale of all types of historic letters, documents, manuscripts and relics. Since those early days of paper bid sheets, one telephone… Continue