I have had the opportunity, on a number of occasions, to get a celebrity autograph, I never did. The only one I ever tried to get ended up in a handshake instead. I have no proof the handshake ever happened, I guess that's why autographs are so popular. Looking back, if I had gotten all those autographs that I probably could have, I might have a lot of money.
Orville Wright, Charles Kettering, J. Strom Thurman, General Charles Summerall, Patti Paige, Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton, Walt Disney, Liberace, Harry James, Jimmy Durante, L. Ron Hubbard, and Dave Longaberger, to name a few. Some of those could be worth a few bucks.
The only one I ever wanted to get was a "spur of the moment: one. I was in the airport in Lansing, Michigan, I saw a familiar face or two, realized that Magic Johnson was going to arrive, and was ready to get an autograph. He came up the ramp, I was ready, he apologized, said he was tired, and asked if a handshake would do. So I did. An autograph would live forever, no one knows about the handshake but me.
Some ink scribbled on paper, is an autograph. The value depends on who put the ink there. Isn't it amazing what we value? People can actually make a living buying, selling and trading, signatures, or autographs, and even more, some people make a living determining if a signature is authentic or not. How crazy is that?
