Does it really devalue the poster or morph it into something else? I was amazed
to see how certain Lobbies or posters which had been signed by a performer or
had provenance with the performer, when placed in the "right" auction went for
very large sums of money. When the Roy Rogers Museum contents were sold, I was
truly amazed at prices realized for some posters which were really common,
including some signed and unsigned items that were re-releases. They seemed out
of proportion to the value of the poster itself, because presumably even a
re-released lobby signed by John Wayne, Judy Garland or Marilyn Monroe, appeals
to a far wider group of people than poster collectors. There are more autograph
hounds out there than poster collectors.
I have a few things which in retrospect have signatures on them which mean more
now than they did at the time they were signed. I'm a musician and often I will
take an advance to a session that I am working on and get it signed by people
who show up and then donate one to a charity or school auction around LA.
I have always loved working with Randy Newman and about 17 years ago I took
some advances to the first Toy Story session. I wanted Randy to sign them. You
can't really ask people to take time out from working to do that for you, so I
took them into the recording both and asked if Randy and the Director could
sign them at their convenience. Who knew then that the movie would be so huge?
When I picked up the posters at the end of the day Randy had signed it and John
Lassiter, Pete Doctor and Andrew Stanton (all unknown to me) as well as Steve
Jobs who was there (and of whom I had only a passing awareness). It didn't mean
much to me at the time. I have found out since that Steve Jobs didn't sign lots
of autographs. Apparently he signed the posters that day, since he was in the
recording booth and saw everyone else doing it and wanted to be one of the guys.
Sometimes, I have that poster hanging in my house and Steve Jobs' signature
seems to always get more attention than John Lassiter or Randy Newman.
----- Original Message -----
From: Rodney Sims
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fwd: [MOPO] paying for autographs
Am I alone in not wanting items - particularly rare ones - to be scrawled
over with sharpies? Luckily a man who was very interested in my UK Wicker Man 1
sheet (who proposed to get everyone still alive from the movie to sign it) gave
it a miss, and it finally went to a good home instead. However, I was genuinely
poised not to sell it to him, because it would have been ruined - a poster no
longer, just the receptacle of some retired actors' signatures. It's not like
these posters are falling out the trees!
Rodney
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:59:17 -0800
From: neiljawor...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fwd: [MOPO] paying for autographs
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
I'd like to know if anyone has been put in the tricky situation of NOT
wanting someone to autograph an item?
Did, for example, any of you once get your Forbidden Planet 1sh autographed
by Leslie Nielsen at an event and then have to grab the sharpie out of the hand
of non-featured player before they also signed?
Neil
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From: John Waldman <jhnwald...@yahoo.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012, 20:52
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fwd: [MOPO] paying for autographs
I think the difference is a celebrity signing one autograph for a fan in the
comfort of their home is one thing. But when the celebrity is traveling and
signing 100's of signatures at a show, that's a whole different deal. Who's
going to do that for free?
JW
From: Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fwd: [MOPO] paying for autographs
WHO FERGIN CARES IF THEY CHARGED OR NOT
WHY SHOULD SOMEONE GIVE YOU SOMETHING FOR FREE THAT HAS A CASH VALUE
DO YOU DONATE YOUR PROFITS TO CHARITY??
AND IF YOU THINK MICKEY MANTLE NEVER CHARGED FOR HIS AUTOGRAPH - YOU NEVER
WENT TO A BASEBALL CARD SHOW
At 12:18 PM 2/20/2012, Michael B wrote:
does anyone have a historical perspective of this "paying" practice?
i cannot imagine the legends like bette davis, sinatra, liz taylor,
hitchcock, lucille ball would ever ask......except if 100% of the money went to
a charity.
did mickey mantle or babe ruth ever charge?
michael
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