by countpaul » Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:02 pm
The photo with him I was lucky enough to get for free although at the actual event they took him out a side way, but the convention center was at a hotel so we waited in the lobby. The autograph was recieved by me directly from him several years ago for free for a charity auction, which I turned around and was the winning bidder on because I used to know someone that worked in his office.
They actually sent three items. A signed book, a signed original NASA 8x10 and this signed collectors copy of the Life magazine that was in a special red leather binder. And I bid on this item. I had asked if people thought he would pose for a picture...sign a program or I had toyed with the idea of seeing if he would inscribe this to me as it was already signed. I decided for two reasons not to.
For one it would make the value less....although I will never sell it and to me it doesnt matter how much its worth when im gone....But also I didnt want it to look like I wanted an autograph or they might not stop.
I had brought along another letter for a charity that I am currently getting autographed items for and his Assistant remembered the email I had sent her but she had been unable to reply yet. She said he always makes donations such as that but it still needed to be sent through the mail and not gotten in person because for one thi g there are certain items he wouldnt sign due to them being One Of A Kind.....
The photo with him I was lucky enough to get for free although at the actual event they took him out a side way, but the convention center was at a hotel so we waited in the lobby. The autograph was recieved by me directly from him several years ago for free for a charity auction, which I turned around and was the winning bidder on because I used to know someone that worked in his office.
They actually sent three items. A signed book, a signed original NASA 8x10 and this signed collectors copy of the Life magazine that was in a special red leather binder. And I bid on this item. I had asked if people thought he would pose for a picture...sign a program or I had toyed with the idea of seeing if he would inscribe this to me as it was already signed. I decided for two reasons not to.
For one it would make the value less....although I will never sell it and to me it doesnt matter how much its worth when im gone....But also I didnt want it to look like I wanted an autograph or they might not stop.
I had brought along another letter for a charity that I am currently getting autographed items for and his Assistant remembered the email I had sent her but she had been unable to reply yet. She said he always makes donations such as that but it still needed to be sent through the mail and not gotten in person because for one thi g there are certain items he wouldnt sign due to them being One Of A Kind.....