Most valuable living autograph?

[RichardSimon]

Neil Armstrong, and it is not even close, in the non sports world.
Right, Zip?? .

[milkit1]

non peraonlised space shot of armstrong by far.

[Danny Smith]

Koufax has got to be up there for living hofers.

[travrosty]

armstrong is the most valuable, he doesn't sign anymore but on very rare ocassions, one-off, no mass signings. so if he signed just a cut like an index card , you could get 4 figures for it.

baseball, mike marshall is near the top, hard signature to get, he signs infrequently.

in boxing, alfredo evangelista (fought Muhammad Ali) is very hard to find, he is living, but is difficult to find and get to sign anything. a cut like an index card gets 250 dollars, and a photo brings 500. This is as much as Ali brings himself, and I don't think Ali can really sign anymore due to his health.

[old13man]

Both Pujols and Ichiro are also quite expensive to purcahse.

[prewarsports]

J.D. Salinger might be the most expensive. I think an Actual signature of his would probably fetch near $10,000.

EDIT, I forgot he Just passed away about a year ago. It is probably Armstrong as I know cuts of him are over $1000 and photos are in the $4000 range.

Rhys

[mr2686]

To me, there's a difference between expensive and valuable...and value is in the eye of the beholder. For example, I collect baseball hof'ers in a hof book. Lee MacPhail is the oldest living hof'er and he's in poor health so the window for me getting him to sign and the oportunity is quite narrow. For me, he is one of the most valuable. Jordan and Jeter are both expensive and popular and many people want them as individual sigs and along with team sigs so they are also very valuable.

[Jay Wolt]

What about Ali? Especially that he can no longer produce viable autographs due to his illness.

[Deertick]

Originally Posted by travrosty

baseball, mike marshall is near the top, hard signature to get, he signs infrequently.

LOL, I didn't know this! I live about 7 miles away from Dr. Mike and had an aquaintenceship while playing Men's baseball. He is a little ornery, .

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by Deertick

LOL, I didn't know this! I live about 7 miles away from Dr. Mike and had an aquaintenceship while playing Men's baseball. He is a little ornery, .

Marshall just had a private signing with Chris Potter sports. $250 a pop.

[Mr. Zipper]

Armstrong is probably the most valuable living person. $750 for a cut with condition issues and up from there. Easily $4000 for a boldly signed white space suit portrait unpersoalized. A generic personalized portrait with some fading is around $2000.

He signed freely for many years but stopped in 1994. The ironic twist is he often used a blue pen that faded badly over the years. So many signed photos have literally self destructed.

The reason he is so valuable is truly global demand. And he crosses over from space to historical to general interest collectors.

I have a few in my collection. I really regret not stocking up back in the 90s when you could get personalized ones for a few hundred bucks.