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King, I don't think I have a single autograph from anyone of note!

 

I'm about a decade too late for that thread. One of the first "collections" I ever sold on eBay was a collection of wedding invitations and corresponding thank you notes from a huge number of notables. Most left to me by my mother, but many that I received as well. There were socialites (real ones, not the trash that have appropriated the term in recent decades), celebrities, royals, statesmen, etc. I realized a nice price for it as well. I sold it at auction, and if memory serves, it averaged out to about $73 per piece............and it included over one-hundred pieces..................

 

I'm about a decade too late for that thread. One of the first "collections" I ever sold on eBay was a collection of wedding invitations and corresponding thank you notes from a huge number of notables. Most left to me by my mother, but many that I received as well. There were socialites (real ones, not the trash that have appropriated the term in recent decades), celebrities, royals, statesmen, etc. I realized a nice price for it as well. I sold it at auction, and if memory serves, it averaged out to about $73 per piece............and it included over one-hundred pieces..................

Congrats on the wonderful sale!!! I have always said that some of the most valuable items are things such as these because they were not suppose to survive. I don't know about anyone else, but when I do receive a thank you note I read it & toss it into the paper recycling bin. I have gotten absolutely ruthless in the past couple of years about tossing stuff that ends of cluttering my life.

 

Hi,
My favorite was an autographed copy of "Gone With the Wind" signed by Clark and Vivian. Unfortunately it was the screen play book that was written after the movie was made. It tells the story of the movie not the real book. Still I got 450 dollars for it.
greg

 

Just because it's Valentine's Day... These were my grandparents, in 1943. They had been married almost 20 years at that point:

They were happy together till the end, when my grandmother died in 1966.

 

Whatever he's asking, the answer is...
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

Good to see you Gila girl

 

Hey, there, Terryerryerry-o!

 

Technically this first one is a RPPC, but I consider both of them among my most prized possessions.

My Mother & Father in as far as I know the only baby pictures that exist.

 

Peggy, those are delightful! You are very fortunate to have them.

I'm still scanning away, trying to make even a tiny dent in all the photos I sent home to myself from my Mom's.

I thought this one of my grandmother, age 10, was fun. It was taken in 1916 at Clason Point Park - once known as "the Coney Island of the Bronx":

 

Got this one yesterday. Not only was it shot in the city where I live...she looks like someone I know who lives in this city too! Maybe this is her Mom...
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This may also be the best photo I have of a girl/woman in a sailor suit.
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FOUR People - ONE face.........................
some of my more pedestrian ancestors.............

 

Some fashionable aunts and uncles...........

 

I'm just getting around to scanning the rest of my grandfather's WWI photos. There are a number from Camp Mills, 1918, which I may post later, but I thought that this one (also 1918) was pretty cool.

"Pop" was in the motor pool, and this photo (with his handwriting on it) is from the Pierce Arrow factory in Buffalo, where he went on several occasions to pick up trucks:

 

EXCELLENT!!!
I bet you could sell copies on eBidet.

 

LOVIN' THESE!

 

My mother, born in 1909, was the youngest of five. As her siblings passed, some of them childless, she inherited much of their stuff and then I got it all when she died. I have several copies of this picture from different aunts and uncles so I know the woman and child are relatives, but no one is alive who remembers. I wish I'd found one before my mother passed.

 

Bev, that's a lovely photo! Can you possibly compare it to others you have, and perhaps figure out who they are?

 

I've tried and can't find any others. No one in my family that I know of was this elegant. My grandfather's parents died before my mother was born so she didn't know they. The only thing I can think of is that it's his mother and sister. I have nothing from that side of the family. His mother was a Rexford, born in Vermont. Her family originated in Stonington, CT. She married a French Canadian. They lived in the same town, but it's bisected by the country border - Stanstead.