Collecting Signed Personal Checks?

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

There are several HOFers of which a lone example of a signed check is known. You would assume (and correctly so) that most of these autographs would be tough to procure in any instance. Actually, some of the toughest are incredibly easy to procure on practically any other medium. It's an interesting category of collecting to be certain.

[TakingStock]

Originally Posted by JBirkholm

There are several HOFers of which a lone example of a signed check is known. You would assume (and correctly so) that most of these autographs would be tough to procure in any instance. Actually, some of the toughest are incredibly easy to procure on practically any other medium. It's an interesting category of collecting to be certain.

Do you know of any like this in particular? I remember seeing a lone Eddie Collins on HA a few years back, maybe 2-3 Bottomleys, 4-5 Hack Wilsons, etc. I regret having missed out on Johnny Mize and Luis Aparicio on eBay 2 years ago!!!

[dherm360]

I hate that the card companies are cutting these checks up and making "cards" out of checks. They have a redemption for everything else, why not a redemption for the full uncut check.

[John V]

I wonder how the price and value of vintage checks will be affected by modern day banking's "check Imaging" in which cancelled checks are not returned in your monthly statement? What we have available now in paper form, is about it. Few if any modern checks will be entering the collector market.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Unfortunately, thanks to modernizations in technology and thought, two highly poplular methods of collecting are on the virge of extinction: checks and 3X5s. I'll miss the latter even more. At least some players who refuse to sign blank 3X5s will sign custom 3X5s with their pictures printed on them. It doesn't have the same feel, however.

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by JBirkholm

Unfortunately, thanks to modernizations in technology and thought, two highly poplular methods of collecting are on the virge of extinction: checks and 3X5s. I'll miss the latter even more. At least some players who refuse to sign blank 3X5s will sign custom 3X5s with their pictures printed on them. It doesn't have the same feel, however.

Why would a player refuse to sign a blank 3x5 card?

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

A few years ago, somebody came up with the notion that blank 3X5s could be used to assist in identity theft. By the time current players reach A or AA ball, it seems like a handler or agent has already instructed them against the perceived evils of 3X5s. Ridiculous.

[Big Dave]

Why won't players sign 3 x 5s now?

[scmavl]

I only have one, from Smoky Joe Wood.