@JBK said:
Many years ago I did quite well getting various notable people from the Kennedy Administration to sign brochures from the JFK Library in Boston.
That sounds really cool. I visited that very place in 2000 during a school trip. It was an amazing place.
This just arrived today. It is a signature of former Boston Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg. He was an accomplished pitcher for the Red Sox, especially in the big 1967 "impossible Dream" season when they almost won the World Series.
I always loved how Jim Lonborg went on to earn a medical degree in dentistry after his career in baseball. He has been a practicing dentist in Massachusetts for decades.
Here he has signed one of my grandfather's prescription forms (he was a doctor). I inherited a few pads of these years ago and recently it popped into my head to try to get some signed by appropriate people, such as famous doctors, actors who played doctors, and a few cartoonists who might draw a medical-themed sketch. I have had some great responses.
Here, Lonborg gives his prescription for successful pitching.
So I was able to buy a Michelle Obama deluxe signed edition of Becoming. Since it was pretty much the only way to obtain her signature I chose to buy this and remove the signature so now I can have Barack Obama’s and Michelle Obama’s signatures together.
I had purchased a couple of the Scotland commemorative banknotes issued some years ago in honor of golfer Jack Nicklaus.
I bought graded notes to be sure I was starting with pristine notes, and I held my breath for the few months it took to come back from his office. They seem no worse for wear and I am very happy to have them.
Aside from monarchs and dictators, I am personally aware of only two people two appeared on banknotes in their lifetime: Sir Edmund Hillary on a New Zealand $5 note, and Jack Nicklaus on the Scotland 5 pound note.
I am lucky enough enough to have gotten both notes autographed by the person pictured.
I bought these two Sonia Sotomayor autographs (removed from her Just Help! books) a few months ago. The nice thing about these were that they were signed on a tipped in page so they could be cleanly removed. I put the smaller cut one with the picture I printed of Sotomayor and the other by itself (made it look about the size of an index card). Very happy with the results. I hope someday to get a signed Sotomayor letter (written to me, or traded/bought from someone else that got one).
In 1991 four Oriole pitchers contributed to a no hitter in Oakland (which is unusual in itself). After the game I wrote the A's a letter asking for an un-sold ticket to the game & they complied to my request.
Over the next couple years, I got it signed by all four pitchers & I don't believe another exists to be honest (Mike Flanagan unfortunately committed suicide in 2011):
IMF
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@Ironmanfan said:
In 1991 four Oriole pitchers contributed to a no hitter in Oakland (which is unusual in itself). After the game I wrote the A's a letter asking for an un-sold ticket to the game & they complied to my request.
Over the next couple years, I got it signed by all four pitchers & I don't believe another exists to be honest (Mike Flanagan unfortunately committed suicide in 2011):
IMF
Great and creative use of resources. How many people held onto their bent crumpled ticket as a souvenir (as well they should have), but you got an unused one from the source.
Not an autograph but I like it anyway. It's a 1961 handbill for a Beatles appearance. Ringo Starr wouldn't join the band for another 17 months as he was a member of Rory Storm and The Wild Ones (which was an ad hoc version of "The Hurricanes" on this evening and even possibly included members of the Beatles). The band at the time of this performance featured Pete Best on drums and Stuart Sutcliffe on bass.
That’s really neat. If you ever met Pete Best that might be an interesting item to get signed. Or you could get a quality reproduction of it signed. I remember Best used to sign ttm decades ago but I doubt he still does now.
Since today is her "Heavenly Birthday", here is my autograph of Old Hollywood Actress, Adele Mara
With a bio.
Born April 28, 1923; Adele was a sultry-brown eyed Spanish-American brunette who came to Hollywood by way of Xavier Cugat and his dance orchestra. Aged just 15, she was spotted performing on stage in New York by a talent scout from Columbia Studios; within days she was on a train bound for Union Station.
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She made her film debut in "Navy Blues" (1941), quickly followed by the Lupe Velez vehicle "Honolulu Lu (also 1941) and as Conchita Montoya in "Shut My Big Mouth. She shared the saddle with Tex Ritter in "Vengeance of the West", supported Rita Hayworth in "You Were Never Lovelier" (all 1942). She played a nurse on the popular film serial, "Alias Boston Blackie" starring Chester Morris. The same years she was voted "Pinup Girl of the Year" in a poll held by Yank magazine.
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When her contract with Columbia expired, she transformed herself into a sultry blonde; though found herself typecast as the sexy senorita in a spate of b-westerns, including "Bells of Rosarita" (1945) with Roy Rogers, and opposite Gene Autry in "Twilight on the Rio Grande" (1947).
•
Occasionally she found the opportunity to shine, taking the lead in the musical, "Song of Mexico " (1945), and in the crime dramas, "The Catman of Paris" (1946) with Carl Esmond, as Peg Mallory in "Web of Danger" and "Blackmail" co-starring Ricardo Cortez (both 1947) and "I, Jane Doe" (1948) starring Ruth Hussey.
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Perhaps her most memorable roles were opposite John Wayne, in the adventure flick "Wake of the Red Witch" (1948) and most famously, the war epic "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949). Her last big-screen appearance was in "The Big Circus" (1959) starring Victor Mature.
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In 1952, she married the prolific TV producer Roy Huggins, and she appeared in a number of his popular series, including "77 Sunset Strip" and "Maverick." She continued to work occasionally until the late 1970s. Huggins died in 2002.
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Adele died in May 2010, aged 87.
She is also the mother-in-law to hollywood actress, Penelope Ann Miller!
@rte592 said:
Not much of an autograph guy but I occasionally find something of interest in delenquent storage lockers.
What is that? What is the whole item?
It is someone practicing Stan Lee's autograph over and over, including his birth name. Either Stan himself, or a forger.
It's over at a friend's house.
If I recall correctly it was in with a lot of comics and comic con programs.
Might have been on a piece of paper or page in a program.
Yeah, this might take a while...
Bill doesn't remember seeing it.
He's the collector, he wouldn't have sold it.
It's around his place somewhere, no doubt filed away in the best spot, you know the ones where you can't remember where you put cool stuff...
I did manage to find when I took the picture back in 2018.
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Dancer, Stage & Film Actress, Mitzi Mayfair (June 6, 1914 - May 1976).
This is one of my favorite & rarer autographs in my collection.
_Mitzi Mayfair was born Juanita Emylyn Pique on June 6, 1914, in Fulton, Kentucky. Her grandfather was a minister and she attended church every Sunday. Mitzi started dancing when she was a child. Although she never took a lesson, a local theatrical producer cast her in a kiddie review. Vaudevillian Gus Edwards saw Mitzi in the show and asked her to go on tour. At age 15, she danced in the short film Manhattan Serenade. Mitzi made a few more Vitaphone shorts but she preferred to be on the stage. By 1936, she was one of the highest-paid vaudeville performers in the country. Her specialty was kicking her leg up to touch the back of her head. Mitzi appeared in several Broadway shows including "The Ziegfeld Follies" and "Take A Chance", with Ethel Merman.
On March 12, 1938 she married Albert Hoffmann, vice-president of the Hoffman beverage company. The couple had a tumultuous marriage and they separated a few years later. During World War II, she joined Kay Francis, Carole Landis, and Martha Raye on a four-month USO tour to entertain the troops. When their experiences were made into the movie Four Jills in a Jeep (1944), Mitzi played herself. Although she wasn't a trained actress her performance received good reviews.
Dancer Irene Castle wanted Mitzi to play her in a film but the studio gave the part to Ginger Rogers, instead. In 1943, Mitzi filed for bankruptcy claiming that she only had $200 in assets. The following year she married Charles Henderson, a music executive from 20th Century Fox. Soon after she retired from Hollywood to become a full-time housewife. She loved to cook and play chess. Mitzi divorced her husband and married Fred Cook in 1963. Sadly in October of 1970 Mitzi was assaulted and robbed in her Sacramento home. Soon after she and her husband moved to Tucson, Arizona. She died in May 1976 at the age of 61. She is buried at East Lawn Palms Cemetery in Tucson_
Mitzi, upper left, with Bob Hope.
**Second to left Mitzi with close right Carole Landis, far left Kay Francis, & far right Martha Raye. Part of the first four-month USO tour. **
Today I "rediscovered" this autographed news clipping while in search of something entirely different. Mike used to come into the grocery store that I worked at back in the 1980's. One day he popped in with this signed news article. Coincidentally enough, I have written June 6, 1984, on the reverse side of the article. 38 years ago today!
It started life as a card signed by Linus Pauling in the 1990s. Many years later when I learned that he had some connections to James Watson I dug it out and sent it to him. Watson had essentially stopped signing by then but he made an exception for this card.
Pauling won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962, and Watson and his team won a Nobel that same year for discovering DNA.
It started life as a card signed by Linus Pauling in the 1990s. Many years later when I learned that he had some connections to James Watson I dug it out and sent it to him. Watson had essentially stopped signing by then but he made an exception for this card.
Pauling won the Nobel Prize in 1962, and Watson and his team won the Nobel that same year for discovering DNA.
I had written to him about his decision to deny Michael Moore the use of a Who song in one of his movies. I was living overseas when I wrote to him so he probably thought I was a Brit, hence the playful little dig at Americans.
@PipestonePete said:
February 23 is quite an important date in the history of the battle of Iwo Jima.
Yes, it was also the date of the famous flag raising on the top of Mount Suribachi. (As well as the less known first flag raising earlier that day).
As far as I know there was no connection at all between Woody Williams' activities and the flag raising. There was so much going on that day that these historic events did not intersect.
@bronzemat said:
New addition to my "Carole Landis" collection, a signed "performance contract" from 1945.
Image is what I used on instagram.
Wow! That looks beautiful. So glad you were able to score this one. I love signed contracts. They have a neat history and usually pretty much guaranteed authentic signatures.
Found these two framed signed photograph ensembles at a local yard sale today. The Jonathan Toews features a 16" X 20" signed photograph and the Patrick Kane group includes a signed 8" X 10". I paid $20 for each.
Happy Heavenly Birthdays to Lee and Lyn Wilde, billed as “The Wilde Twins”, who appeared in films of the early to mid 1940s to early 1950s.
These are extremely rare autographs, very few real ones exist for collectors, but value wise, not much.
Marion Lee and Mary Lyn Wilde were born in in East St. Louis, Illinois, Lee is the older of the two, born shortly before midnight of October 10, 1922, with Lyn born in the early hours of the following morning.
The began singing with their siblings in church, and by their teens were singing hymns for their local radio station, as well as performing in Illinois and Kentucky. By 1940 they were band singers, and in 1942 they made their film debuts, as vocalists for the Charlie Barnett Band, performing one song in the Harriet Hilliard film “Juke Box Jenny” (1942). Further live performances led to another featured film appearance in the Judy Garland film “Presenting Lily Mars” in 1942. Joe Pasternak was impressed by them and signed them to a seven year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. They played small roles in “Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble” (1944), followed by “Twice Blessed” (1945), a film written specifically for them to introduce them to a wider audience.
The sisters appeared in nine films together until 1949, and Lyn briefly continued her film career, and appeared in a further six films until 1953. They married brothers, Jim and Tom Cathcart, and focused their attentions on family life, rather than continuing in show business.
Lee died September 7, 2015 (aged 92) & Lyn died September 11, 2016 (aged 93).
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Inger Stevens (1934-1970).
Took over 35 years, but recently got an authentic autograph of Inger Stevens, and for much less than I was willing to pay. Her autograph is extremely elusive.
Popular 2 time Twilight Zone guest star, Inger Stevens was a Swedish-American film and television actress best known for her role of Katy Holstrum in the American situation comedy television series ‘The Farmer's Daughter’.
This classy yesteryear beauty had to struggle all through her life with relationships starting from her troubled childhood after her mother abandoned the family to falling and failing in love with her co-stars that often left her depressed. She ran away from home at 16 and started working in burlesque shows only to be brought back by her father.
She later worked as a chorus girl and took classes at the Actors Studio and began appearing in commercials, plays and TV series before landing with her breakthrough role with the Bing Crosby starrer film ‘Man on Fire’. She moved on with several other film and television appearances but became a household name with the TV series ‘The Farmer's Daughter’. Success of the series that ran for three seasons paved way for several notable films. These include some of her brilliant performances in films like ‘A Guide for the Married Man’, ‘Madigan’, ‘5 Card Stud’ and ‘A Dream of Kings’, ‘Hang ‘Em High’, among others. She would pass away in 1970 from to "acute barbiturate poisoning".
I recently picked up a 1960's era autograph book which was owned by a gentleman in Blackpool, England. (I posted some of the "mystery autographs" from this book last week.) My main interest in the book are the signatures of Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon...all signed on August 1, 1965, after their "Blackpool Night Out" television performance. The show was the only live promotion the Beatles did for the "HELP!" album and was also features the very first live performance of the Beatles classic "Yesterday" as well as the first live stage performance of the title track "HELP!". The letter which accompanied the autograph book states the the gentleman who obtained the signatures was a "transfer agent" in the employ of ABC Television. He shuttled the Beatles after the show and was able to obtain all of the Fabs signatures except for George Harrison. I really like the fact that John Lennon used an entire page for his dedication "To Margaret with love------------>".
I was poking around in the archives today and unearthed these.
Operation Desert Storm propaganda leaflets with Iraqi banknote design on one side and text on the other, signed by General Norman Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell:
@JBK said:
I was poking around in the archives today and unearthed these.
Operation Desert Storm propaganda leaflets with Iraqi banknote design on one side and text on the other, signed by General Norman Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell:
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I love those Operation Desert Storm propaganda leaflets. I wish I got some of them back when they were easier to get. You chose great people to sign them. Sadly both have since passed.
I had a third one (all have different messages on the back) which I wanted to get signed by George HW Bush, but by the time I was doing these he was winding down TTM.
I can't show a photo of this one, because it's not in my possession. Today, while working my weekly volunteer shift at the local thrift store, I happened to open a copy of a book by astronaut John Glenn, and it was signed. I showed it to one of the pricers, who is getting it re-priced now. It had been back in the bargain room, priced at 99 cents!
@ernie11 said:
I can't show a photo of this one, because it's not in my possession. Today, while working my weekly volunteer shift at the local thrift store, I happened to open a copy of a book by astronaut John Glenn, and it was signed. I showed it to one of the pricers, who is getting it re-priced now. It had been back in the bargain room, priced at 99 cents!
@ernie11 said:
I can't show a photo of this one, because it's not in my possession. Today, while working my weekly volunteer shift at the local thrift store, I happened to open a copy of a book by astronaut John Glenn, and it was signed. I showed it to one of the pricers, who is getting it re-priced now. It had been back in the bargain room, priced at 99 cents!
You should had purchased it when it was 99 cents!
Yeah, I admit it was tempting to get Glenn's. But I have a loyalty to the store, too. It's not the first time I've pointed out to them a signed book: Colin Powell, Serena Williams, Kathy Griffin, etc.
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Many years ago I did quite well getting various notable people from the Kennedy Administration to sign brochures from the JFK Library in Boston.
That sounds really cool. I visited that very place in 2000 during a school trip. It was an amazing place.
This just arrived today. It is a signature of former Boston Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg. He was an accomplished pitcher for the Red Sox, especially in the big 1967 "impossible Dream" season when they almost won the World Series.
I always loved how Jim Lonborg went on to earn a medical degree in dentistry after his career in baseball. He has been a practicing dentist in Massachusetts for decades.
Here he has signed one of my grandfather's prescription forms (he was a doctor). I inherited a few pads of these years ago and recently it popped into my head to try to get some signed by appropriate people, such as famous doctors, actors who played doctors, and a few cartoonists who might draw a medical-themed sketch. I have had some great responses.
Here, Lonborg gives his prescription for successful pitching.
So I was able to buy a Michelle Obama deluxe signed edition of Becoming. Since it was pretty much the only way to obtain her signature I chose to buy this and remove the signature so now I can have Barack Obama’s and Michelle Obama’s signatures together.
Very happy with the outcome.
That's probably the best way to get her. I just don't see any other way to be confident.
Oh, and congratulations !
This arrived back today.
I had purchased a couple of the Scotland commemorative banknotes issued some years ago in honor of golfer Jack Nicklaus.
I bought graded notes to be sure I was starting with pristine notes, and I held my breath for the few months it took to come back from his office. They seem no worse for wear and I am very happy to have them.
Aside from monarchs and dictators, I am personally aware of only two people two appeared on banknotes in their lifetime: Sir Edmund Hillary on a New Zealand $5 note, and Jack Nicklaus on the Scotland 5 pound note.
I am lucky enough enough to have gotten both notes autographed by the person pictured.
Very nice! I knew of those two notes but didn’t realize that’s all that existed for living “celebrities” on banknotes.
I bought these two Sonia Sotomayor autographs (removed from her Just Help! books) a few months ago. The nice thing about these were that they were signed on a tipped in page so they could be cleanly removed. I put the smaller cut one with the picture I printed of Sotomayor and the other by itself (made it look about the size of an index card). Very happy with the results. I hope someday to get a signed Sotomayor letter (written to me, or traded/bought from someone else that got one).
In 1991 four Oriole pitchers contributed to a no hitter in Oakland (which is unusual in itself). After the game I wrote the A's a letter asking for an un-sold ticket to the game & they complied to my request.
Over the next couple years, I got it signed by all four pitchers & I don't believe another exists to be honest (Mike Flanagan unfortunately committed suicide in 2011):
IMF
That’s pretty awesome!
Great and creative use of resources. How many people held onto their bent crumpled ticket as a souvenir (as well they should have), but you got an unused one from the source.
I would not be surprised if yours was unique.
Not an autograph but I like it anyway. It's a 1961 handbill for a Beatles appearance. Ringo Starr wouldn't join the band for another 17 months as he was a member of Rory Storm and The Wild Ones (which was an ad hoc version of "The Hurricanes" on this evening and even possibly included members of the Beatles). The band at the time of this performance featured Pete Best on drums and Stuart Sutcliffe on bass.
That’s really neat. If you ever met Pete Best that might be an interesting item to get signed. Or you could get a quality reproduction of it signed. I remember Best used to sign ttm decades ago but I doubt he still does now.
That is an outstanding piece. It has to be a valuable rarity.
I think Pete Best still signs sometimes TTM, but as mentioned I'd send a copy if you ever decided to try.
Edited to add: I'll bet you could make a few $ on ebay selling high quality reproductions.
Aniston mid 90s
Cilento , Seans wife
Cimino (very tough ttm)
Hall '02
Nielsen late 80s
Plank late 80s (vhtf)
Svein Byhring (brother of Carsten who played Kjell in Olsen Gang crime comedies , extremely rare)
Thiessen early 90s (middle name , rare)
Since today is her "Heavenly Birthday", here is my autograph of Old Hollywood Actress, Adele Mara
With a bio.
Born April 28, 1923; Adele was a sultry-brown eyed Spanish-American brunette who came to Hollywood by way of Xavier Cugat and his dance orchestra. Aged just 15, she was spotted performing on stage in New York by a talent scout from Columbia Studios; within days she was on a train bound for Union Station.
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She made her film debut in "Navy Blues" (1941), quickly followed by the Lupe Velez vehicle "Honolulu Lu (also 1941) and as Conchita Montoya in "Shut My Big Mouth. She shared the saddle with Tex Ritter in "Vengeance of the West", supported Rita Hayworth in "You Were Never Lovelier" (all 1942). She played a nurse on the popular film serial, "Alias Boston Blackie" starring Chester Morris. The same years she was voted "Pinup Girl of the Year" in a poll held by Yank magazine.
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When her contract with Columbia expired, she transformed herself into a sultry blonde; though found herself typecast as the sexy senorita in a spate of b-westerns, including "Bells of Rosarita" (1945) with Roy Rogers, and opposite Gene Autry in "Twilight on the Rio Grande" (1947).
•
Occasionally she found the opportunity to shine, taking the lead in the musical, "Song of Mexico " (1945), and in the crime dramas, "The Catman of Paris" (1946) with Carl Esmond, as Peg Mallory in "Web of Danger" and "Blackmail" co-starring Ricardo Cortez (both 1947) and "I, Jane Doe" (1948) starring Ruth Hussey.
•
Perhaps her most memorable roles were opposite John Wayne, in the adventure flick "Wake of the Red Witch" (1948) and most famously, the war epic "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949). Her last big-screen appearance was in "The Big Circus" (1959) starring Victor Mature.
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In 1952, she married the prolific TV producer Roy Huggins, and she appeared in a number of his popular series, including "77 Sunset Strip" and "Maverick." She continued to work occasionally until the late 1970s. Huggins died in 2002.
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Adele died in May 2010, aged 87.
She is also the mother-in-law to hollywood actress, Penelope Ann Miller!
Not much of an autograph guy but I occasionally find something of interest in delenquent storage lockers.
What is that? What is the whole item?
It is someone practicing Stan Lee's autograph over and over, including his birth name. Either Stan himself, or a forger.
It's over at a friend's house.
If I recall correctly it was in with a lot of comics and comic con programs.
Might have been on a piece of paper or page in a program.
Yeah, this might take a while...
Bill doesn't remember seeing it.
He's the collector, he wouldn't have sold it.
It's around his place somewhere, no doubt filed away in the best spot, you know the ones where you can't remember where you put cool stuff...
I did manage to find when I took the picture back in 2018.
To revive this thread....
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Dancer, Stage & Film Actress, Mitzi Mayfair (June 6, 1914 - May 1976).
This is one of my favorite & rarer autographs in my collection.
_Mitzi Mayfair was born Juanita Emylyn Pique on June 6, 1914, in Fulton, Kentucky. Her grandfather was a minister and she attended church every Sunday. Mitzi started dancing when she was a child. Although she never took a lesson, a local theatrical producer cast her in a kiddie review. Vaudevillian Gus Edwards saw Mitzi in the show and asked her to go on tour. At age 15, she danced in the short film Manhattan Serenade. Mitzi made a few more Vitaphone shorts but she preferred to be on the stage. By 1936, she was one of the highest-paid vaudeville performers in the country. Her specialty was kicking her leg up to touch the back of her head. Mitzi appeared in several Broadway shows including "The Ziegfeld Follies" and "Take A Chance", with Ethel Merman.
On March 12, 1938 she married Albert Hoffmann, vice-president of the Hoffman beverage company. The couple had a tumultuous marriage and they separated a few years later. During World War II, she joined Kay Francis, Carole Landis, and Martha Raye on a four-month USO tour to entertain the troops. When their experiences were made into the movie Four Jills in a Jeep (1944), Mitzi played herself. Although she wasn't a trained actress her performance received good reviews.
Dancer Irene Castle wanted Mitzi to play her in a film but the studio gave the part to Ginger Rogers, instead. In 1943, Mitzi filed for bankruptcy claiming that she only had $200 in assets. The following year she married Charles Henderson, a music executive from 20th Century Fox. Soon after she retired from Hollywood to become a full-time housewife. She loved to cook and play chess. Mitzi divorced her husband and married Fred Cook in 1963. Sadly in October of 1970 Mitzi was assaulted and robbed in her Sacramento home. Soon after she and her husband moved to Tucson, Arizona. She died in May 1976 at the age of 61. She is buried at East Lawn Palms Cemetery in Tucson_
Mitzi, upper left, with Bob Hope.
**Second to left Mitzi with close right Carole Landis, far left Kay Francis, & far right Martha Raye. Part of the first four-month USO tour. **
Today I "rediscovered" this autographed news clipping while in search of something entirely different. Mike used to come into the grocery store that I worked at back in the 1980's. One day he popped in with this signed news article. Coincidentally enough, I have written June 6, 1984, on the reverse side of the article. 38 years ago today!
I came a across this today.
It started life as a card signed by Linus Pauling in the 1990s. Many years later when I learned that he had some connections to James Watson I dug it out and sent it to him. Watson had essentially stopped signing by then but he made an exception for this card.
Pauling won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962, and Watson and his team won a Nobel that same year for discovering DNA.
Cool and probably rare signature combination.
Here is a fun one from musician Pete Townshend.
I had written to him about his decision to deny Michael Moore the use of a Who song in one of his movies. I was living overseas when I wrote to him so he probably thought I was a Brit, hence the playful little dig at Americans.
(Name edited out).
In honor of the last living Medal of Honor recipient from WWII, Hershel "Woody" Willians, who passed away today at 98.
He was awarded the MOH for his actions on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945.
February 23 is quite an important date in the history of the battle of Iwo Jima.
Yes, it was also the date of the famous flag raising on the top of Mount Suribachi. (As well as the less known first flag raising earlier that day).
As far as I know there was no connection at all between Woody Williams' activities and the flag raising. There was so much going on that day that these historic events did not intersect.
Here is the story that CBS Sunday Morning did on Woody this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec7XpXPH-LU&ab_channel=CBSSundayMorning
New addition to my "Carole Landis" collection, a signed "performance contract" from 1945.
Image is what I used on instagram.
Wow! That looks beautiful. So glad you were able to score this one. I love signed contracts. They have a neat history and usually pretty much guaranteed authentic signatures.
Dug this out of storage recently. Had completely forgotten about it. Might fit here.
The Posse!
Found these two framed signed photograph ensembles at a local yard sale today. The Jonathan Toews features a 16" X 20" signed photograph and the Patrick Kane group includes a signed 8" X 10". I paid $20 for each.
Happy Heavenly Birthdays to Lee and Lyn Wilde, billed as “The Wilde Twins”, who appeared in films of the early to mid 1940s to early 1950s.
These are extremely rare autographs, very few real ones exist for collectors, but value wise, not much.
Marion Lee and Mary Lyn Wilde were born in in East St. Louis, Illinois, Lee is the older of the two, born shortly before midnight of October 10, 1922, with Lyn born in the early hours of the following morning.
The began singing with their siblings in church, and by their teens were singing hymns for their local radio station, as well as performing in Illinois and Kentucky. By 1940 they were band singers, and in 1942 they made their film debuts, as vocalists for the Charlie Barnett Band, performing one song in the Harriet Hilliard film “Juke Box Jenny” (1942). Further live performances led to another featured film appearance in the Judy Garland film “Presenting Lily Mars” in 1942. Joe Pasternak was impressed by them and signed them to a seven year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. They played small roles in “Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble” (1944), followed by “Twice Blessed” (1945), a film written specifically for them to introduce them to a wider audience.
The sisters appeared in nine films together until 1949, and Lyn briefly continued her film career, and appeared in a further six films until 1953. They married brothers, Jim and Tom Cathcart, and focused their attentions on family life, rather than continuing in show business.
Lee died September 7, 2015 (aged 92) & Lyn died September 11, 2016 (aged 93).
Here are a few of mine. My Dad got these all via SASE back in the day.
Ron Hansen signed a few items for me TTM
IMF
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Inger Stevens (1934-1970).
Took over 35 years, but recently got an authentic autograph of Inger Stevens, and for much less than I was willing to pay. Her autograph is extremely elusive.
Popular 2 time Twilight Zone guest star, Inger Stevens was a Swedish-American film and television actress best known for her role of Katy Holstrum in the American situation comedy television series ‘The Farmer's Daughter’.
This classy yesteryear beauty had to struggle all through her life with relationships starting from her troubled childhood after her mother abandoned the family to falling and failing in love with her co-stars that often left her depressed. She ran away from home at 16 and started working in burlesque shows only to be brought back by her father.
She later worked as a chorus girl and took classes at the Actors Studio and began appearing in commercials, plays and TV series before landing with her breakthrough role with the Bing Crosby starrer film ‘Man on Fire’. She moved on with several other film and television appearances but became a household name with the TV series ‘The Farmer's Daughter’. Success of the series that ran for three seasons paved way for several notable films. These include some of her brilliant performances in films like ‘A Guide for the Married Man’, ‘Madigan’, ‘5 Card Stud’ and ‘A Dream of Kings’, ‘Hang ‘Em High’, among others. She would pass away in 1970 from to "acute barbiturate poisoning".
Very nice!
I recently picked up a 1960's era autograph book which was owned by a gentleman in Blackpool, England. (I posted some of the "mystery autographs" from this book last week.) My main interest in the book are the signatures of Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon...all signed on August 1, 1965, after their "Blackpool Night Out" television performance. The show was the only live promotion the Beatles did for the "HELP!" album and was also features the very first live performance of the Beatles classic "Yesterday" as well as the first live stage performance of the title track "HELP!". The letter which accompanied the autograph book states the the gentleman who obtained the signatures was a "transfer agent" in the employ of ABC Television. He shuttled the Beatles after the show and was able to obtain all of the Fabs signatures except for George Harrison. I really like the fact that John Lennon used an entire page for his dedication "To Margaret with love------------>".
That’s amazing!
Fantastic!
Doris Kearns Goodwin gave a talk at an area college a couple weeks ago & I had her sign a copy of her book "Wait Till Next Year:"
I was poking around in the archives today and unearthed these.
Operation Desert Storm propaganda leaflets with Iraqi banknote design on one side and text on the other, signed by General Norman Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell:
Some good advice from Warren Buffett:
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I love those Operation Desert Storm propaganda leaflets. I wish I got some of them back when they were easier to get. You chose great people to sign them. Sadly both have since passed.
I had a third one (all have different messages on the back) which I wanted to get signed by George HW Bush, but by the time I was doing these he was winding down TTM.
October 1964 book signed by Bobby Richardson and the recently deceased Curt Simmons
IMF
All I did was go to my iCloud, type in “auto” and post the oldest pic that came up:
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
I can't show a photo of this one, because it's not in my possession. Today, while working my weekly volunteer shift at the local thrift store, I happened to open a copy of a book by astronaut John Glenn, and it was signed. I showed it to one of the pricers, who is getting it re-priced now. It had been back in the bargain room, priced at 99 cents!
You should had purchased it when it was 99 cents!
Yeah, I admit it was tempting to get Glenn's. But I have a loyalty to the store, too. It's not the first time I've pointed out to them a signed book: Colin Powell, Serena Williams, Kathy Griffin, etc.