Celebrity used pens!

[joshh_911]

This seems a bit of an amateur question, imagine if you're waiting at a stage door for actors or at a sports ground, would be quite hard to put a pen to one side because it had been used once lol.

Suppose the idea of keeping a pen might appeal to you the very young people on here, but for autograph collectors surely it's the autograph you're after lol? My pens have been used by some top footballers, musicians, actors etc but I still bin them lol.

They usually get binned as soon as the point goes on the markers, when some stars apply a lot of pressure on signing (usually the older ones), or when the footballers use it to sign for everyone or just throw it on the ground because they can't be bothered to return it- then it's time for a new one!

I collect mainly Premier League footballers, but just because Steven Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry and Frank Lampard used it, doesn't mean I shouldn't use it again or bin the thing haha!

[Shambler]

"you the very young people"? Can't say I'm some 16-year-old celeb mad teen, wanting to keep anything that any star touches. But an amount of sentimental or monetary value can be placed on certain objects.

My example would be a coke bottle which David Beckham drank on while in Australia. It was put up for auction, and fetched bids of over £1 500.

[margotchanning]

This seems a bit of an amateur question, imagine if you're waiting at a stage door for actors or at a sports ground, would be quite hard to put a pen to one side because it had been used once lol.

Suppose the idea of keeping a pen might appeal to you the very young people on here, but for autograph collectors surely it's the autograph you're after lol? My pens have been used by some top footballers, musicians, actors etc but I still bin them lol.

They usually get binned as soon as the point goes on the markers, when some stars apply a lot of pressure on signing (usually the older ones), or when the footballers use it to sign for everyone or just throw it on the ground because they can't be bothered to return it- then it's time for a new one!

I collect mainly Premier League footballers, but just because Steven Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry and Frank Lampard used it, doesn't mean I shouldn't use it again or bin the thing haha!

This post is a bit disrespectful. You're saying that you have to be young and naive to find sentimental value in your "graphing" pen.
I don't specifically keep my pens but I'm not going to slate people who do. I probably still have pens that celebrities have touched but I can't remember which ones they are. However, if David Caruso were to ever use my pen, I would keep it in a glass case, never to be touched by human hands again

[joshh_911]

"you the very young people"? Can't say I'm some 16-year-old celeb mad teen, wanting to keep anything that any star touches. But an amount of sentimental or monetary value can be placed on certain objects.

My example would be a coke bottle which David Beckham drank on while in Australia. It was put up for auction, and fetched bids of over £1 500.

I think the fun of meeting the stars does lose some appeal with modern dealers cropping up, masses of extra people waiting so it's a lot harder nowadays to how it used to be when meeting celebrities had an element of fun. I'll agree that some items are worth keeping, but the coke bottle just seems mad. Fair enough a football shirt, captain's armband, shorts, boots etc... Or for bands, guitar picks, drum-sticks etc. But something like a bottle of beer at the back of a venue, I'd just leave on the ground. Because some items are unique such as the items of kit, but others like a bottle... it'd be hard to prove to anyone that it had actually been used.

I mentioned the 'younger people' because I'd associate young girl fans crowding round the stage door as ones who would cherish an item like that, can't see it ever appealing to older males... The majority of IP collectors I know aren't "new on the scene" so picking up a bottle of coke, or keeping a pen because 'David Beckham used it' just seems a bit daft. Beckham's a good (at least was when in the UK at games) signer, so it's really the autograph I'd be waiting for, the 'special pen' frame of mind is never something I'd even consider...

This post is a bit disrespectful. You're saying that you have to be young and naive to find sentimental value in your "graphing" pen. I don't specifically keep my pens but I'm not going to slate people who do. I probably still have pens that celebrities have touched but I can't remember which ones they are. However, if David Caruso were to ever use my pen, I would keep it in a glass case, never to be touched by human hands again

I'm not slating them, it just doesn't seem the type of thing a 'regular' collector would do... Imagine if David Caruso appeared and you didn't have a Sharpie... You asked me, and I was like "No!! David used it, you can't borrow!" -you'd be pretty annoyed. I just don't see the whole idea behind it lol.

[margotchanning]

Imagine if David Caruso appeared and you didn't have a Sharpie... You asked me, and I was like "No!! David used it, you can't borrow!" -you'd be pretty annoyed.

I would knock you out and steal it anyway {thumb2}

[joshh_911]

But my whole point is that I wouldn't be so petty in the first place. It's only a pen, the celebrity themselves never owned the thing and they're only going to hold the thing for a few seconds. In my opinion there's no sentimental or monetary value on that...

[James]

Although when celebs take the pen, use it for you and then for 20 or so other people, it does annoy you.. especially if there's someone else with them, and as a result you can't get..

I'm with Josh here.. it's a pen.. I've used the same one for a while now.. just because Jay Z, Rod Stewart, Lucy Liu, Beyonce, Noel Clarke, Simon Pegg, Jim Kerr, Noel Gallagher, Catherine Tate and alot more have used it doesn't make me feel any more 'happy' towards it.

[joshh_911]

Although when celebs take the pen, use it for you and then for 20 or so other people, it does annoy you.. especially if there's someone else with them, and as a result you can't get..

I'm with Josh here.. it's a pen.. I've used the same one for a while now.. just because Jay Z, Rod Stewart, Lucy Liu, Beyonce, Noel Clarke, Simon Pegg, Jim Kerr, Noel Gallagher, Catherine Tate and alot more have used it doesn't make me feel any more 'happy' towards it.

I'll agree with this, though if someone takes the pen and you don't see it again, I wouldn't even think about "memories of the pen" lol! I'd just take out a new one and get others with it. Actually for me it's not a mega big deal if someone uses my pen to sign for others... I'm the other way around, when celebs use someone else's pen or their own it annoys me. Especially when you get all in black on one item, and then someone who's rushing their signing is using their own blue pen. I suppose it's either get it in blue or don't altogether, so of course I get it but doesn't really please me much!

Most younger collectors or "one-off" people who you only see once for 'certain celebs' usually have horrible pens, either the wipe-off board pens, a huge big thick marker with almost no ink left in it, or a plain biro. When someone grabs one of these to sign with it's really annoying.

margotchanning- For the sake of a "D!" signature I'd give you the pen lol! He seems a good signer TTM, but judging by recent articles about him... Heh, that's all I'll say!

[margotchanning]

But my whole point is that I wouldn't be so petty in the first place. It's only a pen, the celebrity themselves never owned the thing and they're only going to hold the thing for a few seconds. In my opinion there's no sentimental or monetary value on that...

I agree with you mate. I was just messing around with that last comment. It would take a lot for me to get sentimental about a pen but if people do, that's fine by me. {thumb2}

[James]

I don't like other people's pens, but get frustrated if my pen is used up by one celeb who uses it on 100 items at an awards or somewhere. It means I have to get a new one when I havn't even used it properly.

But if it is used, I don't then think oh the memories!