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value self portraits? downey, jovi, perry, m manson, more
so over the years as a half-baked celebrity journalist, i sometimes asked my subjects to draw a self portrait in my wee book of same. often as not, they didn't sign the drawing but even so i know who they are, and now i want to see if i can't put a value on them and sell them, most likely on eBay. why now? i'm elderly and in poor health and my daughter has no interest in 'em and i can't bear the idea of them just being junked after my demise.
how to prove authenticity for the ones not signed? in katy perry's case, i referred to the drawing in the story i wrote, so there's that. in other cases, i have either the interview transcripts and/or audio recordings where i asked them to take up the sharpie. and then there's those where someone would just have to take my word. oh, and then there's a few self portraits that are unmistakable for who they are: see george clooney and mark whalberg, for instance.
i have yet to snip open the rings that hold the book together, so i could sell everything as a piece, i suppose. then again, that might not be the best way to maximize what little this is going to contribute to my daughter's inheritance.
thoughts, anyone, on how to determine value and move forward? thanks!
here are two collages w/ some of them.
left to right, top to bottom: katy perry, bon jovi, robert downey jr, benedict cumberbatch, megan fox, george clooney, charlie sheen, mark whalberg, terrence howard
james franco, marilyn manson, melissa mccarthy, hulk hogan (and family), keith urban, urban's signature, john mayer, rivers cuomo, woody harrelson
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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These are great and odd.I 'd write a book with the pics and cash in. Then sell them. They will be worth more and easier to sell after publication.
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Permalink Reply by erik on
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i know you're right, eric, but i don't have many words left in me so a book ain't gonna happen. my only thought at the moment is to put em on ebay at ridiculous prices but use the OBO feature and tell anyone who is interested to make a case for their offer and i'll consider it and prolly take it. don't know how else to proceed.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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Erik
This is very desirable. You'll probably do a lot better consigning it to a reputable autograph auction house that gets good prices for music. It's likely that some of the artists won't mind confirming that they drew them, which will help show you're legit. The auction house may do that for you.
The drawings you posted look spontaneously and naturally drawn, mostly in clearly different hand. These don't look like copies by a forger. Nice stuff.
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I'm sorry Erik - I read over that part in my rush to see your wonderful collection. Steve is correct.
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Eric, you gave Erik good input if he wanted to write a book around them. What I meant is he'd do a lot better consigning them than selling them on eBay.
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Yup, I was agreeing :-)
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eric and steve: thanks much for your input. i always thought i'd get less at an auction house than with ebay. don't they take some large percentage from both parties? even if, perhaps i'm wrong with my thinking. could you tell me who the reputable auction houses are?
among other things, i have a quite long letter from chris farley apologizing for how shabbily he treated me during out meeting. we'd gone to some fancy hollywood joint, where a couple of girls found him and next thing he knew, he'd left the place with them and boarded a plane for hawaii, without telling me, leaving me to wonder where in the devil he'd gone. and for the next two days, no one knew where he was, not his agent nor his pr person nor, of course me. anyway, he wrote to apologize for what happened that night. and then not too long after, he left the party for good, as we all will, eventually. sigh. anyway, part 2, it'd pain me to sell such a personal thing but otoh it'd be foolish of me not to. right?
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Permalink Reply by Josh Board on
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I think your best bet is -- selling it all together, with an auction house, not eBay.
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by ''all together'', do you mean with everything bound together as it is? and could you suggest an appropriate auction house?
perhaps with everything together that'd help w/ authenticity issues that anyone might have since a few of them have provable provenance and all of them follow each other, with no blank pages in between, in line with the dates of the stories as i wrote them and they were published.
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Yes. "as is" because...the ones you have provenance for, help with the ones you don't. One of many reasons why it's best to sell them all together. Also, the fact that you're obviously a journalist, a magazine or the stories with mentions of the drawings, helps in selling the piece as one. For auction houses...try RR Auctions. They deal with a lot of autograph stuff.
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