mwmiller wrote:I think it's a great topic. I had a will drawn up last year and indicated my preference for how to divide up my collection. I'm working on a better way to organize it, both for myself and for the future. I'm hoping that even the personalized items will have some value to my friends and family.

Your personalized items will have HUGE value to any friend or family member who shares the same name as you ;)

I think it's a great topic. I had a will drawn up last year and indicated my preference for how to divide up my collection. I'm working on a better way to organize it, both for myself and for the future. I'm hoping that even the personalized items will have some value to my friends and family.

Might a well throw my 2 cents in. I'd give mine to the kids. Half the time I ask them which football player, Movie star etc we should write to and we take it from there. Most of my success go into the kids Time Capsules for they turn 21 anyway.

I thought I had heap a signed AFL cards but 460 from the same club! is impressive.

I know I want my Vincent Price personalized photo to be buried with me...everything else will be up for grabs I guess.

I haven't given much thought about who or what I'll leave my autograph collection to. I just know that I want it to be preserved well enough to outlast my generation. It's kinda like the family history research I've dabbled into from time to time; I hope one day it'll be valuable to someone i love or their children. Otherwise I'm really concerned about promoting animal rights. Maybe the collection could be sold off to benefit an animal rights organization or donated to a library.

I have been seriously thinking about this lately as i have significant health problems. I estimate the value of my collection as $20000+, but thats retail. I have simply told my wife to let my 2 grown children have their pick of what they want and then try to sell the rest. I started writing a list of each autograph along with what would be a fair price. I know this sounds maudlin but its better to be prepared in case something happens.

Yup , donating to worthy causes is good (WWF , Unicef , Save the Children etc)

Hopefully I will have quite a long time before i really need to think about this as I'm only 16 but if I was to die I would want to be burried with my personalised Taylor Swift autograph and I would donate the rest to the Make a Wish Foundation as these autographs have helped make my wishes come true so i would love for them to help somebody elses wishes come through and any money from them would be going to a good cause

That's funny.

Manuel wrote:Maybe it was a poltie way of your bother asking for it.

Either that or he wants me dead? ;)

He's not really a collector himself (nor does he follow the same football team).

Great that your grand kids are into it though!