I enjoy owning something that was touched by a person whom I admire or whose work I admire and who inspire me. I do not limit myself to sports. I have signed pieces from actors, musicians, comedians, astronauts, war heroes and so on. One of my favorite pieces is a signed copy of the Guggenheim's lifetime show catalog for Roy Lichtenstein that I picked up at the museum in NYC. I was there looking in the gift shop about 2 years after the retrospective, saw the catalog for sale unsigned, and asked a clerk if they happened to have a signed one because I knew Lichtenstein had signed some of them. They did and sold it to me for the same price as the unsigned book. Weighs about ten pounds and is the size of a cafeteria tray so it made for an interesting carry-on time at the airport.
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