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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on March 18, 2024 at 4:30am

Very nice.  Thanks for putting these altogether.  I especially like the driver's license example.  I know they are some contracts on History For Sale site or at least there used to be.  

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 18, 2024 at 4:33am

Thank you Scott, and I appreciate the "Like". I am trying to help Minnie with her Cary Grant quest. I decided to take a short break from the Burton study (I have been touching it up - I must add all the nominations for Woolf?)  ;)

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Permalink Reply by Minnie Fox on March 18, 2024 at 9:45am

Thanks so much Eric :) 

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 18, 2024 at 4:38am

PS - What I am trying to do is suss out the secretarials. It was said some were without substantiation or evidence so I started with the documents. I thought you'd like the driver's license

Here is a 1931!

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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on March 18, 2024 at 4:50am

I never tried to collect Grant although thought about it because I loved Arsenic and Old Lace and have a nice Josephine Hull.  I do not recall ever seeing this own signature as Archie Leach that is very interesting.  I think Dr. Brucato's CEAD is unfortunately no longer working.  

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 18, 2024 at 5:28am

Yes, THECEAD has been MIA for several years now :-(

I wish I had saved more. It was invaluable.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on March 18, 2024 at 5:31am

Yes, the same here especially since there were a couple of mine on there.  I know Leon Ames was one of them.  It was probably expensive to keep the site.  

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 18, 2024 at 5:37am

I'm sure it was costly but it paid in dividends. I would have contributed a few $ to keep that up. I'm sure others would have. Perhaps it is an indicator that vintage is just not what it was (to most but not all). 

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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on March 18, 2024 at 9:42am

It is an odd thing everything Dr. Brucato has on his site that I want when he sends his lists out are usually sold by the time I check them.   There are exceptions.  I believe old classics actors and actresses will always have a high demand.  Lugosi, Karloff and the Chaney's I cannot imagine will fall out of favor.  There are tons of classic horror and Sci-Fi collectors.

The interest in television and movies usually moves ahead in time as younger people start to collect what they watched when young.  That is certainly true with me I collect the shows from the 1960s and 1970s.  Of course, I collect things I saw in reruns like I Love Lucy and the original Honeymooners.   I think both of those will have a market in the future.  I think modern shows like Friends and Big Bang Theory may be like that too.  I just looked up Friends that ended 20 years ago, but I think of it as new lol.  

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