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Wanting to sell an autograph book, should I sell it complete or piece it out one autograph at a time?

I recently was given an autograph book by an older family member,  it is full of autographs from the late thirties/early forties.  Bob Hope, Abbott and Costello, Marlene Dietrich, Humphrey Bogart etc ( the list goes on and on) are just a few of the 100+ names in the book.  My question as a possible future seller,  should I try to find a buyer for the complete book, or should I piece it out one at a time?  How can I possibly get the whole book authenticated?  Or should I even try?  Needless to say I have a lot of questions and I am very new to the subject.  Thanks for your time.

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First, let me say...I much prefer a person logging on and asking a question like this, instead of somebody we've never heard from posting a fake Beatles autograph, asking if it's real. This is the type of interesting thread I can get behind.

Let me say this. I agree with everyone here, and all they say. You'd make more money separating them, but it would be much, much more work. So I think your best bet if you want to sell it is -- sell it as a complete book. Because a Disney signature is worth a thousand bucks on a piece of paper, and the other big, big names...it's not like you're going to get screwed on the deal. 

That being said...the authenticating is the LEAST of your worries, my friend. You see, when you have signatures of those names, from that time period, it is the simplest thing in the world. You don't have to use the logic "as a complete book, they'll just realize they're all real."  Nobody is forging a Bogart or Disney on a piece of paper these days, and getting away with it.

That being said...thanks for posting what you got, and making us all drool!!!!

Post some scans so we can check it out. :D

Will post some scans as soon as I get them from So Cal (I'm in Oregon).

Here are some pics of photocopies of some of the Signatures in the book.

neat!

The Betty Grable autograph is not as concerning to me.  It looks pretty typical.

I'm no Grable expert, but my observations are that the bottoms of those 2 Bs have very clear spots where it stops and loops back up in a dramatically different motion. The Bs in all examples are very natural and fliud with no stops like that. I'll also say that the B's in this example are almost carbon copies of eachother, whereas on other examples the loops in her natural B always falls in slightly different places and are much more fliud.

"G" "r" "b" all have a shakiness to them that look drawn slowly instead of written. The same kind of pause can also be seen between the s and h in "wishes". 

The "e" at the end is missing the little backwards flourish that seems to be on most/all exemplars.

I am not as concerned but I do have concerns as well.  Take a close look at the bottom return on the "B" in "Betty".  The overall appearance of the "B"s is also a bit atypical.  I am not happy with the "G" as well.  It seems to be slowly written.  Let's see what other members have to say.  I am just not ready to give up on this one yet.

I am happy to hear that PSA gave your Betty Grable a thumbs up C. Davis.

Okay, if this is meant to be Judy Garland's signature, you may have a problem. Her signature has never looked like that. Please check the examples available on www.thecead.com to see what I'm talking about.

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