Design Crafters

What kind of a collector are you?  People have all kinds of collections:  china figurines, matchbooks, circus paraphernalia, books about the Civil War, comic books, you name it, someone out there surely collects it!  One type of collection that has been popular for many years (or maybe even many centuries) has been autographs.  Collecting peoples’ autographs probably ranks at the top of types of collections.

Autograph collections are typically a mishmash of formats.  People have all kinds of things autographed for their collections:  baseball cards, cocktail napkins, inside frontispiece of books, teeshirts, movie posters, photographs, and of course the time-tested favorite:  a scrap of paper.    One man in England who was recently recognized as a world-class autograph collector (he auctioned off his collection for 50,000 pounds!) says he put together his collection by writing to people to ask for their autographs, and many famous people complied, sometimes by postcard, letter, or even on Christmas cards.

While most peoples’ autograph collections generally feature the autographs of famous people (actors, musicians, politicians, religious leaders, or even just people in the news for one reason or another), some folks do collect the autographs of friends and family.  Don’t believe me?  Well, next time you’re putting away your Christmas decorations and you find yourself saving the stack of Christmas cards that you received, you might just realize that you are, in a way, collecting your family and friends’ autographs!