What to do with your collection when your gone?

[goswannies]

My brother asked me what was going to become of my collection when I'm no longer around to expand it (he was less polite and simply said dead).

Got me thinking. No kids so can't give them off there. Probably give my Star Wars & LotR ones to a fellow collector. Donate the football ones (over 1000 signatures of over 460 players from one club) back to the club... surely that could be of some use, somehow?

The rest I'm not sure about. Hopefully it's a way off yet and the collection will be an even bigger problem for someone else to deal with by then.

Has anyone else given this potentially morbid topic any consideration?

[Manuel]

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

I had my kids collect autograph and now they lost interest. I'm currently collecting with my grandkids when we go to games. They currently have 3 baseballs full of autographs. They love it.

Maybe I'll give it to all my kids and grandkids.

[goswannies]

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!

[Manuel]

That's funny.

[swiftndbieber]

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

[autograph hound]

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

[Denisrichard]

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.

[spark deLite]

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.

[capmonte]

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

[Sledge]

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.