Sports folk - what would you think of two Amos Alonzo Stagg signatures...
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...on his personal stationery - two letters actually - tipped into the back of a book entitled "Eckersall of Chicago", by James A. Peterson (self published by Peterson, who was president of Hinckley and Schmidt in Chicago in 1957.) Book was from the library of James A. Peterson, so inscribed by him on the inside front cover.
In a Juky (sic) 14, 1957 letter, Mr. Stagg asks to be excused from speaking via long-distance phone at a August 7 luncheon Mr. Peterson was arranging, due to the approach of his 95th birthday - and congratulated him on his recent book about Eckersall (the book in which the letters are tipped in.) Signed it "A. A. Stagg".
On October 3, 1957, Mr. Stagg wrote again to Mr. Peterson, thanking him for the dozen copies of the book he sent, and for having his son over at the luncheon now past. This letter is signed "Amos Alonzo Stagg." Both letters are typewritten, except for the scraggly blue pen signature of Mr. Stagg, which seems quite appropriate for a 94-year old man - the July letter has two punchholes in the left margin.
Mr. Peterson must have been able to convince Mr. Stagg to speak, as according to an August 8, 1957 Chicago Tribune article, clipped and placed inside the book's back cover - Stagg spoke yesterday to a group of men by telephone who used to play for him on the Midway...
next to the article, on the inside back cover, Mr. Peterson noted that "Mr. Stagg died March 17-65." The book itself is basically new condition, minor wear to the cover.
What do you all think - what's the "proper" way to value such an item? I know the Stagg signatures/letters are the focal point, but as a group, I think it's pretty cool.
In a Juky (sic) 14, 1957 letter, Mr. Stagg asks to be excused from speaking via long-distance phone at a August 7 luncheon Mr. Peterson was arranging, due to the approach of his 95th birthday - and congratulated him on his recent book about Eckersall (the book in which the letters are tipped in.) Signed it "A. A. Stagg".
On October 3, 1957, Mr. Stagg wrote again to Mr. Peterson, thanking him for the dozen copies of the book he sent, and for having his son over at the luncheon now past. This letter is signed "Amos Alonzo Stagg." Both letters are typewritten, except for the scraggly blue pen signature of Mr. Stagg, which seems quite appropriate for a 94-year old man - the July letter has two punchholes in the left margin.
Mr. Peterson must have been able to convince Mr. Stagg to speak, as according to an August 8, 1957 Chicago Tribune article, clipped and placed inside the book's back cover - Stagg spoke yesterday to a group of men by telephone who used to play for him on the Midway...
next to the article, on the inside back cover, Mr. Peterson noted that "Mr. Stagg died March 17-65." The book itself is basically new condition, minor wear to the cover.
What do you all think - what's the "proper" way to value such an item? I know the Stagg signatures/letters are the focal point, but as a group, I think it's pretty cool.
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