2024 - YOUR BEST "VINTAGE" ACQUISITION

I saw an earlier thread on this topic but can't find it.

I would really like to know your best "pick" this year, with some explanation about why it is important to you. A picture would be good.

While I do not wish to exclude our younger listeners from the conversation, I am not talking here, about Taylor Swift and other 2024-related releases which - desirable as they may be to many - cut not-so-much-ice with us older non-hipsters.

So, what have you got! Show and tell!

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on Sunday

I can't actually find the image on my desktop, Eric, which indicates that I'm not selling it - yet, lol!

Here is a link to the post in Feb, however, and, btw, you can't take it back!

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/laurel-and-hardy-th...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on Sunday

Ah yes :-)

I had a candid of Oliver Hardy from C. 1952 the Francis Zane Collection, but I sold it.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on Sunday

Findbooks -

I remember that discussion.

You chose a good L&H with it having been signed during the '52 British tour. When it comes to these Boys, I'm generally partial to in-person material like yours for the sake of authenticity.

Well done!

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on Sunday

Thanks, Eddy.

Their autographs are not exactly rare but I did bide my time over the years looking for a context which pleased me - and at the end of the day it is my satisfaction which matters when it comes to personal interest - as a collector. Sometimes that aligns with being a dealer as well, sometimes not.

I so love these two guys. I have been trying to think - do my own children even know who they are? In their experience, I feel, they have had very little exposure to them. If you asked them who L & H were, they might say, "yeah, I have heard of them...I think my Dad liked them". And that would be it. OMG.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on Sunday

Thank you. I am always fascinated by what people collect and why. I have no interest in war. I collect these things because of the resilience of one man, Kiyoshi Kikkawa, who survived the Hiroshima bombing and went on to become a symbol, potter, author and well known peace activist. He was involved with the preservation of the Genbaku Dome. Upon release from the Red Cross Hospital in April, 1951, he opened a small but famous shop in the shadow of the Dome where he educated people, sold artifacts and souvenir books etc. In the first fe years this is how me fed himself and his wife. Most everyone touring Hiroshima coming or going to Korea made a stop at Kikkawa's. I collect the materials he offered especially.

Below is a rare Canadian GI photograph of Kikkawa signing his autobiography in 1953. The book is beneath that.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Jeranek on Monday

I would say this year for me is my Julie Andrews signed My Fair Lady program vintage 1958.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on Monday

very nice. I have Julie on a check that was signed in 1964, coinciding with the filming of SOM

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on Monday

I have been on a Disney Zorro kick this year. I have acquired over 100 8x10 photos from the series and at least 30 autographs from the key actors. I will post photos of my two favorites, which is a vintage Guy Williams signed photo (Zorro) and the signature of Johnston McCulley, the originator of Zorro, on the back of a postcard signed a couple of months before he passed away

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on Wednesday

UK friends on here, michelle and Findbooks, probably know that the original, playful mini-poem contained in the ANS from Rupert Brooke and company was the find of the year for me. Actually, make it the find of the decade (thus far)!

Thanks again to you both for your opinions and patience via our emails at the time I was initially examining the Brooke. Rick at History In Ink was very helpful in assisting me as well regarding the ink and paper. Autograph friends certainly helped this Yank give a new home to a unique treasure from England's tragically iconic WWI poet.