Autograph Collecting
How Much Is Your Autograph Worth?
- How Much Is Your Autograph Worth?
- Found an autograph and want to know how much it is worth? Give us a description, and we will try to help. You can even upload a photo. Tell us as many details as possible, including the source of the autograph.
Collecting Celebrity Autographs
Link to My Autograph Site.
- Collecting Celebrity Autographs
- I can look at my Alan Shepard signed photo and think back to that short conversation with one of the few men who have walked on the moon! I don't doubt that a hundred years from now somebody could very well be looking at that photo and wonder about the circumstances that led to that signed photo.
Link to My Autograph Blog
- Billco's Autograph Collecting
- Autograph blog updated often.
Common Autograph Terms and Abbreviations
SP: Signed Photograph
TLS (Typed Letter Signed): Letter typed, but signed by the subject.
LS: (Letter Signed) Letter written by another, but signed by the subject.
ALS (Autograph Letter Signed): Letter written and signed by the subject.
DS: Document Signed
FE: First Edition
SB: Signed Book
FF: Free Frank
ANS: Autographed Note Signed
FDC: First Day Cover
MQS: Musical Quote Signed
Inscribed: Personalized. For example: To Mary
RS: Responsive Signer
Autopen: Autograph originating from a machine designed for the purpose of replicating an autograph. Since the early 1950s all American presidents and many other government officials have used them for routine official correspondence. Also used by many astronauts.
Secretarial: Entirely written and signed by another, but authorized by the subject.
Facsimile: A printed copy of an original autograph.
KS: (Key Signature) Considered the toughest, and maybe most expensive, autograph to acquire to complete a subject group.
Autograph Sites
- Celebrity Book Signings & events
- Good site for upcoming celebrity book signings. Some stores will reserve an autographed copy and ship it to you.
- Space Autograph Signings & Events
- Nice site to research upcoming astronaut signings and events. Site also has a message board to discuss space autographs.
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- CarlSolf CarlSolf Jun 20, 2009 @ 11:27 am
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