Cool Auto Book with Ruth, Cobb, Young Question

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Originally Posted by theshleps

I think Randy's estimates are high. Regardless I hate seeing autograph books cut up. I have 3 or 4 and I leave them in tact. If you want to sell I'd consign to one of the better auction houses (I've dealt with all of them and don't want to give my opinion in public). It isn't as bad but kind of like when they cut up jerseys and bats and put them on cards. Not enough full autograph books still out there and you will come out with a good price assuming the auction house does it justice. Hopefully it won't be then bough by a flipper who cuts it up but by a collector

It will be cut up by someone at some point. A collector is just not going to pay up for a book of this nature at the level that the 3 cuts will sell for. It sounded like the family who actually owns it wants to maximize on value. That will only happen IMO by cutting the keys out and encapsulating them.

Now if there are many other significant autographs on the pages with multiple signatures like Johnson, Wagner, and others, then it might be a different story. But I assume the 3 pictured single pages are the key ones in the book.

It is a historical book and I understand your hesitancy to see it cut up but if value is what the family is looking for and not nostalgia, then it is necessary.