Baseball Autograph Book from 1941-1942

[muggsy]

Just for reference, my grandfather actually wants me to sell it. He owned a jewelry store, and his motto was always to sell, not hold on to. He'd say, and did, to sell it lol. I still somewhat disagree with him, yes. It's something really neat to me. But I wanted to see what max value on it would be. Mostly though, show it off and see if anyone even cares about it lol

[muggsy]

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[btcarfagno]

With all of the auction houses nowadays, I see maybe 15-20 similar autograph books every year come up for auction. Unfortunately they are not worth the sum of their parts. Someone looking for a Mel Ott won't pay the extra for all of the other autographs he doesn't want. He can also likely find a signed index card or GPC with just Ott instead of a cramped signature as one of ten signatures on a page. A dealer won't pay full price either as a collector likely wouldn't happen to want all of these same autographs. It is worth the most to someone who will "harvest" the signatures and cut up the album to sell them off individually.

This maybe you take the five biggest and most valuable names and add up their value and that is a good indication of the total value upon sale.

Tom C

[theshleps]

I do think it is awful when people cut these up. I have 2 very nice whole albums from the 1930's that are highlights of my collection tho as Tom said the money is in cutting them up. Maybe you'd get $2,000. I'd hold onto it