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PipestonePete
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There's not enough action on this forum. So if you don't have a question or new information to pass on....at least post an autograph or two from your collection. Include the story of how you obtained it if you like.
I'll start with these....
Cecil Stoughton....official White House photographer for JFK.
Harper Lee, Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, and Brock Peters. Five of the major characters of the movie version of the classic "To Kill A Mockingbird". Also signed by the author Harper Lee. I obtained all of these through the mail.
I'll start with these....
Cecil Stoughton....official White House photographer for JFK.
Harper Lee, Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, and Brock Peters. Five of the major characters of the movie version of the classic "To Kill A Mockingbird". Also signed by the author Harper Lee. I obtained all of these through the mail.
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Page from the actual flight plan which traveled to the moon aboard Apollo 11. From Buzz Aldrin's personal collection.
The Beatles.
American President Lines, S.S. President Cleveland Pacific Ocean Easter Cruise, Saturday, May 2, 1953.
It's on my website at "Cruising with Harry Truman"
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Post a picture here!
I'm sorry for being rude! Welcome to the very dark side; the autograph forum!
Here are some of my favorites... these were given to me by Charles Berry, radio presenter in the USA. Thank you Charles.
Karel Husa - Pulitzer Prize Winner
Elliott Cook Carter - Pulitzer Prize Winner
Lewis Spratlan - Pulitzer Prize Winner
Ned Rorem - Pulitzer Prize Winner
William Schuman - Pulitzer Prize Winner
Fred Haise Lunar Module Pilot of the ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission
Some amazing autographs in here.
Would it be possible for people to add their website, so eveyone can enjoy each others collections.
World's Greatest Autographs - https://worldsgreatestautographs.weebly.com/
Lots of history in all those autographs, I was looking through my baseball stuff after finding this ball
but now I will need to dig through more stuff to find my autographs. this one I bought for cheap because
they could not identify it, I've been looking at it and cant figure it out, but that's the fun of sports memorabilia.
receieved this from jimmy johnson
Tony Kanaan
I made this it's own post, but when I saw this thread I thought it fit here as well. This is one of my very few autographs. Marvelous Marvin Hagler Champ.
When I was probably 8 or 9 my best friend right up the street from my house had a mother who worked at a restaurant Marvin would eat at sometimes. She got this for me as a birthday present.
He was and still is my favorite boxer. My Dad had died a few years before that, but I remember watching and talking some boxing with my Dad and I'm sure that's how I became a Hagler fan.
picked these up .. card signed by Hindenburg survivor and book signed by Hiroshima survivor
@slimies those are both very unique and cool items. Thanks for sharing.
you are very welcome, glad to share em
I'm collecting a rather large of autographed WW2 pilots and celebs. Bettie Page being one! This is onbe A just got a few weeks ago trhat I've been looking for. Pappy Boyingtron! If you don't know who he is, LOOK HIM UP!! He was a bad ass Corsair pilot.
Nice sig to have - I don't have one. Missed him somehow when I was starting with WWII figures.
I hate those PSA/DNA stickers - personally I won't buy anything with that. It is inexcusable that they put a sticker on an item, much less on the front.
Bettie Page was strictly a 1950's personality. She had no celebrity connection with WWII.
R.M.T. Hunter is pictured on the lower right of the T-68 CSA note. Hunter was a statesman/politician from Virginia and held many elected offices.
No where did I say she was from WW2. I said I have WW2 pilots AND celebs. I should have said celebs and WW2 pilots.
I haven't got much but I did get this at Disneyland around 1958. Drawn and signed by Roy Williams. He had a small table set up on a side alley on Main Street. I was pretty young but I always remembered getting it because he was on the original Mickey Mouse Club TV show.
I must have missed the autograph section when I signed up and was busy with coins. I'm glad I looked through the sections after my long hiatus. I collected Royal and government signatures from Spain and its territories 1549-1910. I own about 2000 pieces to date with about 200 of them being royal documents from the King/Queen of that time. I have hosted a few history exhibits with them as well.
This document is a 1856 personal letter from Queen Isabella 2nd to her sister inviting her family to the castle for a birth and baptism party for her sisters new child. If personal letters the king/queen would sign with the name and if it was a government document/letter they would sign Yo El Rey/Yo La Reina
I collect these for signature content and also the occasional royal and other seals present on some of the documents.
this is a signed Spanish inquisition document with the seal of the Inquisition. Its a shame about the insect damage.
this is an official letter from King Phillip 2nd (Jan 1591) to the Count of Buendia with the counts reply concerning raising a militia army.
here is an example of the seals
1992 Dream Team autographed ball signed by all 12 player and all four coaches (14 HOFers) on an official Molten ball (the official ball of the 1992 Olympics). Fully authenticated by JSA
Pre-olympics amateur Floyd Mayweather program with two vintage Mayweather signatures
Here is a 1809 (30 Jul) King Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte (King of Sicily) letter, to a unknown general thanking him for having shown interest in his crowning as King in Naples which has been very favorable to him and he further sends him his thanks and deep appreciation. It seems to show a close relationship between the two as the letter seems friendly rather than official.
Napoleon gave his brother joseph the position of King In Naples for two years, then he became King of Spain in 1808 following the invasion of Spain.
Catherine Deneuve is one of my favorite French actresses, I remember her mostly for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Last Metro. 20 years ago I wrote to her all the way to France for her autograph and here is the photo I got back.
One of my most obscure baseball autographs is this very shaky signature of Chester C. Hoff I received when I wrote to him in the summer of 1998. Hoff was a left-handed pitcher who made his major league debut 87 years earlier, on September 6, 1911. Pitching against the Detroit Tigers, he struck out the first batter he faced, the great Ty Cobb. In later years, Hoff recalled this as the highlight of his career.
Hoff only pitched in 23 games. His major distinction is that he was the longest-lived person to have ever played in Major League Baseball. He died just 3 months after this autograph was signed, at the age of >> 107 <<. So...not so bad a signature after all. For myself, if I lived to be 107, I'd be lucky to remember my name, much less write it!
Here are all of my autos. This is my first time on this forum, I've posted these on the cards/memorabilia forum before.
Most of these were created by allifax
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/pdub1819/othersets/6204
Keep it going
Awesome autographs! I too have been busy with the coin forum (my primary collection interest) and did not notice this section. I do dabble a bit with autographs though and these are my favorites. I acquired each item separately and had them framed as single pieces.
Two Titanic survivors Milvinia Dean and Edwina Mackenzie, a newspaper from shortly before the accident, and a copy of the picture of the ship after it had the name painted on the stern (most pictures of the Titanic were taken before the name was painted on).
Apollo 11 Crew
Apollo 13 Crew. I was particularly pleased to have found a handwritten letter from Jack Swigert.
Mundane compared to some of those posted but here are two that I have. The first is Liberace. This was obtained when eating at the Flamingo Hotel and he was there for a meal. Gracious to sign. Second is Mr. Bob Hope. This was my neighbors and I obtained it after he passed. He was a WWII vet that was wounded in the Pacific and recovering in Hawaii before being sent home. Mr. Hope was kind enough to sign this in the hospital when he visited the "boys".
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you have a Bob Hope signature and I have his wife's signature that my grandfather had signed in WWII. She simply signed it,"Delores". I also have about 60 others that he had gotten signed during his time in the navy with the "Fighting CeeBees. Hattie McDaniel, Clara Blandick, Hedy Lamarr, Basil Rathbone, Esther Williams, Dan Seymour, Mary Pickford, Vera Lewis, Martha O'Driscoll, Alan Ladd, Charles Coburn, Roddy McDowall, Trudy Marshall, Mrs Lon Chaney Jr, Jane Cooper, Phil Silvers, Teddy Lynch, Edmund Lowe, Eleanor Boardman, David Hoffman, Gene Lockhart, Dana Andrews, Marjorie wood, Helen Broderick, Harry Gillette, and many others. I have gotten quite an education studying these and trying to put a face to the name. And in some cases just trying to figure out the name itself was a chore.
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I always wonder how stuff like this event exists. Who got close enough to PM and who did he like well enough to get this sort of signature.
I am also curious - what sort of pen would have been used? Too smooth and nimble for a paint pen. I do think they had white ink back in the dip pen and fountain pen eras - maybe that's what it is.
If I didn't know better I would have thought that was printed as part of the cover design, but you would have know if that was the case.
JBK, this signed promotional LP came from the estate of Jim "Rocky" Del Balzo who was the Senior VP of Rock Promotions at Columbia Records....the label that this album was released on. It certainly is a special signature in size and with the caricature and it is obvious that Paul took a little extra care signing this one.
It is outstanding - it makes sense that it is from a special source.
Once or twice in my through-the-mail collecting I have gotten lucky and gotten back much more than the normal response.
I wrote to author Kurt Vonnegut years ago to ask him which of his books was his favorite (a pretty common and boring question). I included a card and SASE, and when I got it back he has answered my question, but also added a self-caricature. I have seen these sketches elsewhere, but it was still neat to get one and in the context of him telling me which of his books was his favorite.
Same goes for me. Here are two of my favorites.....
I had been corresponding with Mark David Chapman for a year or so when he sent me his guitar pick...said he had had it for about 20 years and "it's actually the oldest thing I have left".
Back in the mid 1990's when I was sending items to Harper Lee I had ordered some 8 X 10 B&W portraits from UPI....the only source I knew of to get photos (pre-internet days for me). UPI wanted $50 for one photo or I could buy 5 for $40 each or something like that. I took the chance and ordered 5. I mailed them all to Harper and explained that I ordered and sent FIVE photos explaining that they were $40 if I ordered that number vs. $50 each and that she certainly didn't have to sign them all but to please sign one. I had my fingers crossed for almost two weeks. The big envelope came and I opened to see that she had signed all five photographs and included a note which expressed what she thought of my paying that much for the photos. It is now one of my absolute favorite autographs.
That's great!
Does the HL say "you were robbed"?
Sort of reminds me of a photo I had sent to George HW Bush. It was a great White House photographer photo of him and his dog sitting on the rocks in Kennebunkport. In my letter I had mistakenly mentioned "Millie" (Mrs. Bush's dog) so he inscribed the photo and then included a separate handwritten note correcting me - it was his dog Ranger.
Yes, it says "Mr.Peters: You wuz robbed! H.L."
That's pretty good getting the separate note from Pres.Bush. Very nice. I had received a number of signed items from Pres. Ford but never did get either of the Bush Presidents.
Now I see it - "wuz:" - that makes it even better,
GHW Bush was easy right when he got out of office for a few years (and of course, when he was VP). As the Internet grew he started to get tougher and tougher due to increased requests. I was lucky to get a few nice photos before the hammer came down.
As far as I know, George W. Bush was only decent prior to the 2000 election. I think he has been tough since leaving office. There was a small window several years ago when he wrote a book and his office sent a signed bookplate to anyone who asked.
Ford was great, and Carter is also (for books and photos from his time in the WH).
I have about 800 sports autographs. I didn’t know where to start, so I’ll just start with my favorite card. Not necessarily the most valuable, but my #1 favorite item.
Yaz Master Set
#1 Gino Cappelletti master set
#1 John Hannah master set
Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, Dwight Evans, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox