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Posted By: Hankron

From an opposite collecting viewpoint, one of my pet collecting areas is items (sublime to everyday to bizzarre) that belonged to famous people. As long as the overall aesthetics are preserved, some handwriting or marks raise the value. For example, I once owned several Ronald Reagan family photo albums, and Nancy Reagan had handwritten humorous camptions on the back of many of the snapshots (Hadn't realized she had a sense of humor). I owned two boxing books that belonged to the famed trainer Mannie Seamon (Joe Louis' trainer). In each book he underlined his name in ink every time it appeared, then created a front page index titled 'Mannie Seamon appears on' followed by the page numbers where his name appeared. Mannie was obviously very proud of himself.