What kind of member are you? (Check as many as apply.)

Collector

What would you like to tell us about yourself, your collecting, or business.

I started with sports through the mail in the 70s, followed by presidents, astronauts, politics/historical, to wide entertainment industry. I'm proud of my signed Life magazine covers from the 1930s to 1990s and growing collection of celebrity signed high school and college yearbooks.

What is your level of expertise?

Long Time Lover

What are your areas of interest?

Sports, History/Politics, Books/Literature, Modern Hollywood and Stage, Classic Hollywood and Stage, SciFi, Horror, Space/Aviation/Military

Why do you collect?

In getting started , my father would attempt to get me an autograph at bank conventions that started my interest. Then, in writing via the mail in the 1980s, I loved to see the postman come with my SASE envelopes and somewhat like deep sea fishing in that you did not know whose autograph response was coming. Now, in getting mostly in-person people, it is the thrill of that moment when asking for the autograph and the photograph with thge notable person.

What is your favorite autograph in your collection?

One of the first received via the mail, a handwritten letter from Jimmy Stewart discussing Princess Grace and noting that "Rear Window was only her fifth picture and that she was a wonderful actress and a beautiful princess".

You can ask anyone living or dead for their autograph. Who would it be?

Abraham Lincoln.