So I went to a big stamp show last weekend and bought

[steve B]

I've often bought stuff at shows for other things.

First baseball silk came from a coin show.

And I went to a restauraunt china show and bought cards and a Cubs coffee cup that was probably an office or vip item.

And stamps, and bottles and other stuff from card shows.

One of my few other autographs came from a mall craft show.

Steve B

[Michael B]

I also find nice items where I would not expect to find them. I found a Johnny Evers 1939 baseball signed cover at Brimfield for $10. That Boxborough stamp show. along with the Ephemera Society show have been the sites of my biggest finds. Most of the stamp dealers do not put out their 'autographs'. I was walking around that show and a dealer asked me out of the blue if I was looking for autographs. He pulled out a box of interesting items. At the time I was collecting and selling a lot of Civil War signatures. I pulled out a full handwritten letter by a Confederate General who was killed in Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. The dealer had it well identified but terribly underpriced. Sold it to a collector at the Gettysburg Civil War show about a month later for 10 times what I paid for it (low 4 figures).