Well the gavel struck on Ebay. The high bid was $355. Not enough to meet the hidden reserve of $750 I'd set. So I weighed out the options: Based on RRauctions.com estimate of "$500 to $1000" -ish, I saw that I'd be in the low $400's after their sales commission (15%) if the low end of that...

aamir, when this book turned up in our dad's boxes (we'd heard rumors about it as kids), the 3 us asked each other "who wants it?" (as it can't be divided into 3 parts). No one was/is a collector, so it would've gone unappreciated, and putten into a box for another 50 yrs. So it was decide...

Here's the ebay item #: 120384890188

A few forum-pages ago, you folks helped me interpret names from our late father's autograph book (circa 1941-43 Hollywood). That post was here: http://www.fanmail.biz/mboard/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=124171 After much input about the value, rarities, etc.... I shopped it between "Autographworld...

guilder1st, thanx for the link. I sent them an email (per their site's instructions), with the photos for them to look at. I'll report back here what they say. I noticed right off the bat though, that the autographs they sell are generally autographed photos, not pages out of books like mine. Oh wel...

thanx everyone for your input. Fascinating to take the ID's, then go back to the pix of the autograph, and realize "oh yeah, NOW I see it" :roll: I've read all the input, coming from hobbyist autograph collectors, that would know about these things. I've gone to Christies and Sothebys auct...

grobanite19 and anyone else, yes we ultimately plan to sell this. It will be sold as a whole, not parted out page by page (does that sound wise?). After I get as many of the names disciphered (thanx y'all!), I will do this: I will put it on ebay, with a prompt & link here to this forum. So you w...

guilder1st, that was mighty kind of you to # them :) I should've thought about that! And thanx for taking a stab at them. Yes, I recognize a few. Others are neat enough that I could simply google their names. And then there's a percentage that just have the quirks of people signatures. Like the Hedy...

Ok, here goes. Let's see if this works: 1 http://209.85.48.22/9054/118/0/p1005892/dad_031.jpg 2 http://209.85.48.22/9054/118/0/p1005893/dad_032.jpg 3 http://209.85.48.22/9054/118/0/p1005894/dad_033.jpg 4 http://209.85.48.22/9054/118/0/p1005895/dad_034.jpg 5 http://209.85.48.22/9054/118/0/p1005896/da...

As I said in a post several days ago, my sisters and I inherited our late fathers autograph book. When he was a boy, during the years 1941 to 43, he spent summers in Hollywood. He would stake out the studios and restaurants, and get autographs of that period. Please take a look. Some are scribbles, ...