General Autograph News

David Livingstone Letter Reveals Explorer Ate Elephant

on Samstag, 02 April 2011. Posted in General Autograph News

David Livingstone Letter Reveals Explorer Ate Elephant

BBC - A letter which describes how David Livingstone killed and ate an elephant during a African expedition has sold for £28,800 at auction.

Obama's signature - is it real or has it signed by an autopen ?

on Donnerstag, 23 Juni 2011. Posted in General Autograph News

Overseas and out of reach when lawmakers passed an extension of certain provisions of the Patriot Act it had been signed by an autopen

Obama's signature - is it real or has it signed by an autopen ?

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the open secret that nobody in government wants to talk about: That cherished presidential signature that‘s tucked away in a scrapbook or framed for all to see might never have passed under the president’s hand.

Burmese Letter to King George II Deciphered After More Than 250 Years

Written by Autograph Collector's Daily on Mittwoch, 25 Januar 2012. Posted in General Autograph News

Burmese Letter to King George II Deciphered After More Than 250 Years

telegraph - The letter, sent by King Alaungphaya, was an effusive and gushing appeal for camaraderie and trade with Britain. 

JFK Library to Make Jackie Kennedy's Papers Public

on Mittwoch, 15 Februar 2012. Posted in General Autograph News

 

Some of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy's personal papers, including notes from her televised White House tour 50 years ago, are now public for the first time.

Einstein Manuscripts Sell in Excess of $1.2 Million

on Mittwoch, 18 April 2012. Posted in General Autograph News

Einstein Manuscripts Sell in Excess of $1.2 Million
Eclipsing the auction price of $1,050,000 achieved in 1987 for Einstein’s manuscript on the Theory of Relativity and $500,000 for the Einstein/Besso Manuscript, sold in 2002, Lion Heart Autographs sold on April 14, 2012, to an American collector for more than $1,200,000, over 110 pages of hitherto unknown Einstein manuscripts spanning a wide range of scientific subjects.

Rare 'Schindler's List' documents sold at New Hampshire auction

on Donnerstag, 15 August 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By Daniel Lovering
BOSTON | Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:37am EDT

(Reuters) - Documents linked to Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist known for his efforts to save Jews from World War Two concentration camps, were sold at auction for more than $122,000, a New Hampshire auction house said on Thursday.

Stolen manuscripts worth 4 mn euros recovered in Italy

on Dienstag, 27 August 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Rome: Italian police said on Friday they had recovered 36 manuscripts by novelist Giovanni Verga worth some four millions euros (USD 5.25 million). The manuscripts were stolen in the 1930s. 

Johnny Football’s Payday

on Donnerstag, 05 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By JOE NOCERA, Published: September 6, 2013. Welcome aboard, Time magazine. So glad you decided to join our little bandwagon!

I’m referring, as you may already know, to the cover story in the current issue. “It’s Time to Pay College Athletes,” reads the headline, accompanied by the current poster boy for the issue, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel. Indeed it is.

Manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel digitized for public access

on Mittwoch, 11 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

BY PATIENCE HAGGIN

The original manuscript of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, “This Side of Paradise,” has been digitized and made publicly accessible online, the Princeton University Library announced today.

Bellini opera fragment found in Spain

on Dienstag, 17 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Rare fragment of an opera score handwritten by 19th century Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini found in Spain.

Bellini opera fragment found in Spain
By Telegraph Reporters and AFP

On Lincoln`s Mind: A plea for help from the frontier

on Donnerstag, 19 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln Posted Sep 19, 2013 @ 01:01 AM

Editor’s note: With Nov. 19 marking the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln will feature letters to or by Lincoln, written between the end of Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, and his famous speech. 


Govt to ask for 900-year-old manuscript back from Oxford University

on Montag, 23 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

The Annals of Inisfallen – written in 1092 – have been on display in the Bodleian Library.

200 years later, George Washington finally gets his presidential library

on Donnerstag, 26 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By Michael E. Ruane, Published: September 27

The new president of the United States got out his copy of the Acts of Congress, turned to the Constitution and looked up his duties.

George Washington's Thanksgiving proclamation to sell for $12m?

on Dienstag, 08 Oktober 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Washington's Thanksgiving proclamation may be the most valuable American document

George Washington's original proclamation establishing the first federal Thanksgiving Day is set to break records at Christie's on November 14.

Harry Belafonte sues Martin Luther King Jr's heirs

on Mittwoch, 16 Oktober 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By Layne Weiss

New York - Harry Belafonte, 86, sued the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Tuesday over three documents that used to be in Mr. Belafonte's collection of memorabilia, The New York Times reports.

Beatle John Lennon school detention sheets put up for sale

on Montag, 11 November 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Beatle John Lennon school detention sheets put up for sale
Detention sheets describing Beatle John Lennon's schoolboy misdemeanours are being put up for sale.

It's too long-winded! What George VI's adviser thought of early draft of the King's Speech

on Sonntag, 24 November 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By WILLIAM TURVILL

It's too long-winded! What George VI's adviser thought of early draft of the King's Speech

An early version of the ‘King’s Speech’ reveals Britain was preparing to declare war on Germany before Hitler invaded Poland.
George VI’s address to the nation, depicted in the 2010 movie starring Colin Firth as the stammering monarch, had been written at least nine days beforehand.
The three-page document that has come to light is entitled ‘Draft King’s Speech’ and is dated August 25, 1939.

Long-lost diary of Nazi Alfred Rosenberg turned over to Holocaust Museum

on Dienstag, 17 Dezember 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By Michael E. Ruane

Alfred Rosenberg joined the Nazis before Adolf Hitler did. He later served as the party’s interim leader. He wrote a virulent, best-selling book about the “Aryan” struggle against Jews.

On View | Long Live “The Little Prince”

on Donnerstag, 23 Januar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By ADRIENNE GAFFNEY

On View | Long Live “The Little Prince”
The little-known New York roots of a French classic are unearthed in “The Little Prince: A New York Story,” a Morgan Library exhibition that explores the origins of the deceptively profound children’s book.

The Lost Art of the Condolence Letter

on Montag, 10 Februar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By SAUL AUSTERLITZ

I write because I desperately need to communicate, and because I know that ultimately, I cannot. I write to remember, and to be remembered.

Working Draft of Orson Welles’s Script for ‘Citizen Kane’ to Be Auctioned

on Donnerstag, 27 Februar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By ALLAN KOZINN

Orson Welles’s personal copy of an early script for “Citizen Kane” will be offered for auction at Sotheby’s in London on March 6.

Shaken and stirred: letters reveal Ian Fleming's tempestuous first love

on Mittwoch, 26 März 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

In letters from early 1930s to Edith Morpurgo, Fleming writes: 'I would like to hurt you because you have earned it'

Shaken and stirred: letters reveal Ian Fleming's tempestuous first love
It might sound more Fifty Shades of Grey than 007, but a series of letters by a young Ian Fleming to his Austrian lover see the man who would go on to create James Bond detailing how he would like "to hurt you because you have earned it and in order to tame you like a little wild animal".

John Lennon manuscripts, drawings sell for $2.9 million at auction

on Mittwoch, 04 Juni 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

John Lennon manuscripts, drawings sell for $2.9 million at auction
(Reuters) - Original manuscripts and drawings by former Beatle John Lennon, produced for two acclaimed books he wrote in the mid-1960s, sold for $2.9 million on Wednesday, more than double the pre-sale estimate, Sotheby's auction house said.

Bob Dylan’s Rolling Stone lyrics set new world record at Sotheby’s

on Mittwoch, 25 Juni 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

Bob Dylan’s lyrics to Like a Rolling Stone sold for $2m on June 24

Bob Dylan’s Rolling Stone lyrics set new world record at Sotheby’s
Bob Dylan's original autograph lyrics for Like a Rolling Stone have sold for $2m at Sotheby's New York - a new world record for a pop music manuscript.

Taylor Swift May Be Right About the Death of the Autograph

on Freitag, 11 Juli 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By Alice Robb

But some people now want their selfies signed

Thousands of Einstein Documents Are Now a Click Away

on Donnerstag, 04 Dezember 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By DENNIS OVERBYE

Albert Einstein writing out an equation relating to the density of the Milky Way at the Carnegie Institute in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 14, 1931. Einstein left a scattered collection of letters, notebooks and diaries.
They have been called the Dead Sea Scrolls of physics. Since 1986, the Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to whom Albert Einstein bequeathed his copyright, have been engaged in a mammoth effort to study some 80,000 documents he left behind.

Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75

on Mittwoch, 07 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News, Autograph forgeries

By MARGALIT FOX

Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75
In a rented storage locker on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the writer Lee Israel kept a cache of antique typewriters: Remingtons and Royals, Adlers and Olympias. Each was tenderly curated, hung with a tag whose carefully lettered names — Edna, Dorothy, Noël, Eugene O’Neill, Hellman, Bogart, Louise Brooks — hinted at the felonious intimacy for which the machines were used.

Saving Bosnia's past from the ashes

on Samstag, 17 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Guy De Launey, BBC News, Sarajevo

Saving Bosnia's past from the ashes
The interior of Sarajevo's Presidency building would make any historian wince. Not the decor itself - but the charred papers, piled against the walls.

This display of damaged documents stretches away down the ground floor corridors of the building, leaving dark smears on the white paint, leading to a heap of burned books, boxes and manuscripts in a stairwell.

Is The Bull Market Back At Baseball Card And Autograph Shows?

on Samstag, 24 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

by David Seideman

Is The Bull Market Back At Baseball Card And Autograph Shows?
If you’ve read my other posts, you can tell that I really enjoy attending a good baseball card show to swap stories with other baseball history fans and revel in vintage tobacco and gum cards, But for the past year I have worried that these events are going the way of Sunday double-headers that were routine in the 1950s and 1960s.

Museo del Prado Acquires Rubens Sketchbook, Rare Manuscripts

on Donnerstag, 29 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

by David LaGaccia, Thursday, January 29, 2015

Museo del Prado Acquires Rubens Sketchbook, Rare Manuscripts
Madrid's Museo del Prado announced Tuesday the acquisition of the Juan Bordes Library, comprising around 600 historical manuscripts that trace the study of the human anatomy in art.

Turing manuscript up for auction in New York

on Mittwoch, 04 Februar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By AFP

Turing manuscript up for auction in New York
A hidden manuscript written by British mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing at Bletchley Park is to go on auction in New York in April, Bonhams said Tuesday.

The extraordinary document from 1942, when Turing was working to crack the Nazi's Enigma Code, is expected to fetch at least $1 million, the auction house said.

Putting a Price on Simon Kuznets’s Nobel in Economics

on Donnerstag, 26 Februar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By PATRICIA COHEN

Putting a Price on Simon Kuznets’s Nobel in Economics
James D. Watson’s sold for $4.76 million while the one owned by William Randal Cremer, a member of Parliament and labor activist, fetched just $17,000.

€500 Million Ponzi Scheme Suspected at Paris Museum

on Freitag, 06 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

by Coline Milliard, November 20, 2014

€500 Million Ponzi Scheme Suspected at Paris Museum
The cosily niche books and manuscripts market may be about to be hit by one its biggest scandals in recent years. And Paris's Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, as well as its sister organization the Institut des Lettres et Manuscrits, is in the eye of the storm.

Rescuing the priceless manuscripts of Timbuktu

on Dienstag, 10 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

For centuries, Timbuktu was a center of learning, home to a university and a vast collection of manuscripts containing priceless written records of Islamic and African history. When, a few years ago, jihadists invaded the city and set about to destroy its cultural treasures, one man organized a mission to smuggle out most of the manuscripts. Jeffrey Brown reports from Mali.

Queen Victoria's Highland adventures manuscript on show in Edinburgh

on Mittwoch, 11 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Queen Victoria's Highland adventures manuscript on show in Edinburgh
A gilded manuscript based on a book by Queen Victoria which detailed time she spent in the Highlands and north east is going on show in Scotland.

When Do Official Documents Belong to the Public?

on Montag, 30 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

by ​ELIZABETH YALE

When Do Official Documents Belong to the Public?
Hillary Clinton is hardly the first government officer to try to keep her correspondence private. The fight over her emails echoes battles that stretch back to the inception of government archives.

Frida Kahlo Love Letters Sell for $137,000 at Doyle NY

on Donnerstag, 16 April 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Frida Kahlo Love Letters Sell for $137,000 at Doyle NY
April 15, 2015 Auction Featured 25 Unpublished Love Letters Written by Frida Kahlo to Spanish Artist Jose Bartoli Between 1946-1949

Frida Kahlo Biographer Hayden Herrera Has Written an Essay Profiling the Letters and Their Significance.

Archivists Find Fragments of an Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiography

on Mittwoch, 20 Mai 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNESMAY 20, 2015

Archivists Find Fragments of an Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiography
LOS ANGELES — Yet another unfinished work by Orson Welles, that master of the incomplete, is about to surface.

Charles Dickens' notes solve the mystery of unidentified Victorian authors

on Sonntag, 26 Juli 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Charles Dickens' notes solve the mystery of unidentified Victorian authors
It is a discovery that could solve some of the biggest mysteries of Victorian literature.

Lincoln autographed manuscript, quoting his second inaugural address, brings $2,213,000 at auction

on Sonntag, 08 November 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Lincoln autographed manuscript, quoting his second inaugural address, brings $2,213,000 at auction
Signed just weeks before his assassination, ""With malice toward none; with charity for all"; signed for 10-year-old Linton J. Usher, son of Lincoln's Secretary of the Interior, John Palmer Usher; passed down in the Usher family until today

Scholar finds rare New Testament manuscript on eBay priced at $99

on Samstag, 21 November 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Dante D'Orazio

Scholar finds rare New Testament manuscript on eBay priced at $99
While you're scouring eBay for Christmas presents, there are scholars and collectors out there who are keeping an eye out for one-of-a-kind finds. Back in January, Geoffrey Smith, an assistant professor of early Christianity at the University of Texas, came across one such item: a 1,700-year-old papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John. The starting price? $99, no reserve.

Janis Joplin's Psychedelic Porsche Brings $1.76 Million at Auction

on Freitag, 11 Dezember 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Rock legend's iconic 1964 Porsche 356C Cabriolet was expected to fetch $400,000 at RM Sotheby sale

Janis Joplin's Psychedelic Porsche Brings $1.76 Million at Auction
Janis Joplin's psychedelic Porsche sold for $1.76 million Thursday night at RM Sotheby's "Driven By Disruption" car auction in New York. The iconic vehicle – a pearl-white 1965 Porsche 365c 1600 Cabriolet decked out with a kaleidoscopic Flower Power paint job – was expected to bring between $400,000 and $600,000, CNN reports.

Margaret Thatcher's red prime ministerial box sells for £242,500

on Dienstag, 15 Dezember 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Margaret Thatcher's red prime ministerial box sells for £242,500
Margaret Thatcher's red prime ministerial dispatch box has sold at auction in London for £242,500.

The blue velvet wedding dress she wore in 1951 sold for £25,000.

They are among 150 items belonging to the late PM being auctioned at Christie's, with bids from as far away as the US, Australia and South Korea.

Beethoven composition discovered in Greenwich

on Sonntag, 20 Dezember 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Robert Marchant

Beethoven composition discovered in Greenwich
Brendan Ryan noticed it right away.

A professional appraiser, he recently visited the home of a Greenwich woman who was looking to sell some belongings, when his eyes lit on a yellowing sheet of music behind glass, stippled with notes.

Your Signed Harry Potter Book's Fake, Probably, J.K. Rowling Warns

on Freitag, 05 Februar 2016. Posted in General Autograph News, Autograph forgeries

Your Signed Harry Potter Book's Fake, Probably, J.K. Rowling Warns
Say it ain't so, Jo! In a series of tweets on Friday, J.K. Rowling revealed that your beloved, signed Harry Potter book's fake, probably. Rare book dealers may see an uptick in business as Potterheads scramble to verify their copies in the wake of this news.

'Godfather' Author Mario Puzo's Archives Headed to Auction

on Freitag, 19 Februar 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

February sale features novel storyboards, letters to Marlon Brando and director Francis Ford Coppola

'Godfather' Author Mario Puzo's Archives Headed to Auction
UPDATE: Puzo's archive sold for $625,000 at auction. 

A massive, 45-box archive originating from the estate of The Godfather author-screenwriter Mario Puzo is headed to auction in February. The treasure trove of material includes thousands of pages, drafts, notes and varying versions of both the novel manuscript and film screenplay, the latter co-written with director Francis Ford Coppola.   

U.S. Returns Historical Documents, Stolen From Russia In Chaotic '90s

on Samstag, 05 März 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

by Corey Flintoff

U.S. Returns Historical Documents, Stolen From Russia In Chaotic '90s
The United States and Russia haven't been cooperating much in these days of heightened tensions, but the U.S. Embassy in Moscow this week returned 28 valuable historical documents to Russia.

Muhammad Ali US passport to make $35,000?

on Donnerstag, 05 Mai 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

Muhammad Ali was given the US passport as a replacement in 1972 (written by Paul Fraser Collectibles)

Muhammad Ali US passport to make $35,000?
A US passport Muhammad Ali used between 1972 and 1974 could make $25,000-35,000 at Bonhams on June 8.

Ali was issued with the replacement passport at the American consulate in Dublin on July 19, 1972.

If you need an expert on Elvis Presley’s autograph, head to Amherst

on Sonntag, 22 Mai 2016. Posted in General Autograph News, Autograph forgeries

by Mark Mulville/Buffalo News

If you need an expert on Elvis Presley’s autograph, head to Amherst
Rich Consola of Amherst saw Elvis Presley in concert twice at Memorial Auditorium, in 1957 and in 1976.
That was it.
And yet “The King” has been Consola’s focus for decades.
“I’ve studied Elvis Presley’s autograph every day of my life for the past 25 years,” Consola said.

Pelé's World Cup trophy sells for £395,000 at auction

on Donnerstag, 09 Juni 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

By Daniel Etchells

Pelé's World Cup trophy sells for £395,000 at auction
A special replica Jules Rimet trophy presented to Pelé has fetched £395,000 ($571,000/€505,000) at an auction of the Brazilian football legend’s personal memorabilia in London.

Meet Tim Lynch, the All-Star autograph chaser turned Yankees draft pick

on Freitag, 08 Juli 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

By Ken Rosenthal

Meet Tim Lynch, the All-Star autograph chaser turned Yankees draft pick
Tim Lynch spent his childhood hunting down the likes of Miguel Cabrera and Lorenzo Cain for autographs. As of this week, he's playing in the New York Yankees organization.

Bach manuscript breaks auction house record

on Donnerstag, 14 Juli 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

Bach manuscript breaks auction house record
A new record has been set at auction house Christie’s after a manuscript of one of Bach‘s late cantatas sold for £337,250.

Marilyn Monroe's 'Happy birthday, Mr President' dress sells for record $4.8m

on Freitag, 18 November 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

Marilyn Monroe's 'Happy birthday, Mr President' dress sells for record $4.8m
Sheer dress worn by actor to serenade John F Kennedy in 1962 auctioned in LA for world-record sum to museum chain Ripley’s Believe It Or Not

Mahler's second symphony manuscript sells for record £4.5m

on Donnerstag, 08 Dezember 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

Mahler's second symphony manuscript sells for record £4.5m
The manuscript belonged to the Mahler enthusiast Gilbert Kaplan, who caused controversy by conducting the work himself

Booksellers Consider Constraints of New California Autograph Law; Others Push for Repeal

on Freitag, 13 Januar 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

BY BARBARA BASBANES RICHTER

Booksellers Consider Constraints of New California Autograph Law; Others Push for Repeal
On the first of the year, AB-1570 Collectibles: Sale of Autographed Memorabilia went into effect in the state of California, requiring all dealers of any autographed material worth more than five dollars to fill out a certificate of authenticity (COA) specifying date of sale, the dealer’s name and street address, and the name and address of the person from whom the autographed item was acquired if the item was not signed in the presence of a dealer. While AB 1570’s goals are to prevent the distribution of forged autographs, many booksellers feel they’ve been swept up by a vague law with onerous requirements and that portions constitute an invasion of privacy, citing possible violations of California’s Reader Privacy Act of 2011.

The Love Letters of Manly Men

on Samstag, 25 März 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

By KATE MURPHY

The Love Letters of Manly Men
Flowers, trinkets, borrowed sweaters and other reminders of our romantic past may get tossed out. But love letters, for those lucky enough to receive them, are different. They are more likely tucked in a wallet or safeguarded in a box under the bed.

Auction Result Mao Zedong autograph manuscript

on Dienstag, 11 Juli 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

Auction Result Mao Zedong autograph manuscript
The July English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Manuscripts auction saw exceptional results in all offered categories, the sale achieving a total of £2,673,290. 

Mormon Church Drops $35 Million On Printer’s Manuscript Of The Book Of Mormon

on Montag, 25 September 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

It’s reportedly the highest amount ever paid for a manuscript.

Mormon Church Drops $35 Million On Printer’s Manuscript Of The Book Of Mormon
An early copy of the Book of Mormon is now in the hands of the mainstream Mormon church ― but the church had to part with millions of dollars to acquire it. 

Barack Obama’s Lesson in the Lost Art of the Love Letter

on Samstag, 21 Oktober 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

Barack Obama’s Lesson in the Lost Art of the Love Letter

Barack Obama’s love letters to an ex, revealed this week, are nothing for him to be embarrassed about, but rather a testament to a time we proudly committed our feelings to paper.

The Saga of Yoko Ono, Her Chauffeur and Lost Lennon Treasures

on Freitag, 24 November 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

By MICHAEL WILSON

The Saga of Yoko Ono, Her Chauffeur and Lost Lennon Treasures
The melodrama between Yoko Ono and her chauffeur, playing out in New York City courtrooms and across newspaper headlines 11 years ago, appeared to end with that two-month span of accusations, denials and threats. 

THE RISE OF THE ROBOGRAPH SIGNATURE PART TWO!

on Dienstag, 03 April 2018. Posted in General Autograph News, Autograph forgeries

by Garry King

If you have read part one you will now have a basic understanding of how an Autopen machine creates a signature, and if you have studied the John Lennon signature  previously shown you should now be able to see that its not exactly as it should be, in other words it does not look as though its been done by a human hand.

French museums swoop on books, letters and manuscripts at the mammoth auction series of the Aristophil collection

on Montag, 25 Juni 2018. Posted in General Autograph News

French museums swoop on books, letters and manuscripts at the mammoth auction series of the Aristophil collection
French institutions exercised their right of pre-emption on a number of occasions as the gargantuan disposal of the Aristophil collections of historic manuscripts began last week.

The real story – and autographs dealer – behind Can You Ever Forgive Me’s forgeries

on Montag, 05 November 2018. Posted in General Autograph News

The real story – and autographs dealer – behind Can You Ever Forgive Me’s forgeries
On a recent Friday in New York, David Lowenherz set out for an evening at the movies with his wife and some friends whom he hoped would, as he said in an e-mail, “do everything in their power to keep me from throwing popcorn at the screen.” Their choice of entertainment was Can You Ever Forgive Me?, a critically acclaimed drama starring Melissa McCarthy about a literary forger named Lee Israel, and it was clear that Lowenherz, a rare-autographs and manuscript dealer who had helped the FBI ensnare the real Lee Israel in the early 1990s, had not forgiven her.

Ronald Reagan: Celebrating the Centennial of His Birth 1911-2011

on Sonntag, 24 April 2011. Posted in General Autograph News

View Our Virtual History Exhibitions Online

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This exhibition features letters, manuscripts and signed photos that celebrate various aspects of the remarkable life and character of Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. President. There are examples of his optimism and his pessimism; letters about his fierce presumption of racial equality, and manuscripts decrying riots, lawlessness and a coercive state. Featured, too, is a photo of Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin inscribed “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!” Present is a letter written shortly after surviving his own assassination attempt saying, typically, that he was feeling fine. Ronald Reagan led an extraordinary life: this exhibit allows us to celebrate its rich diversity.

The Case of the Disappearing Documents

on Freitag, 30 September 2011. Posted in General Autograph News

By ELLEN GAMERMAN

The Case of the Disappearing Documents
One collector's love for presidential memorabilia lasted decades—and led to an indictment roiling a cloistered world..

At age 10, Barry Landau wrote a letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower, admiring his "very beautiful" wife and offering his assessment of where the general stood in the country's pantheon of great leaders. "I think you lived the most exciting and the most interesting life then [sic] any other President of our United States," according to a copy of the letter released by the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.

Dwight D. Eisenhower – New Autopen and Signature Stamp Patterns Discovered

Written by Andreas Wiemer on Montag, 30 Januar 2012. Posted in General Autograph News

one of the 100 most important documents in American history was signed by Autopen

Eisenhower Autopen signature published in

 

Andreas Wiemer & Rick Schnake

discovered that oe of the 100 most important documents in American history was signed by Autopen

Edward Elgar manuscript found during council clear-out

on Mittwoch, 15 Februar 2012. Posted in General Autograph News

The manuscript and letters were valued at £10,000

 

An Edward Elgar manuscript dating back nearly 90 years has been discovered in a council building in Leicestershire.

V&A buys Vivien Leigh archive

on Mittwoch, 14 August 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Unseen photographs, diaries and letters to Laurence Olivier made available to the public

V&A buys Vivien Leigh archive

Vivien Leigh's archive - including letters sent to husband Laurence Olivier and diaries written until just before the Gone With The Wind star's death - have been acquired by the V&A.

Lincolns letter took a long mysterious path to Tacoma

on Samstag, 24 August 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Published: August 24, 2013




A copy of letter from Abraham Lincoln written to a nephew in Oregon in 1860, then photo-copied - literally - onto two glass negatives around World War I in Tacoma. Not seen since then, those negatives were re-discovered this year by the Tacoma Historical Society, which was going through dozens of donated boxes of negatives.

Unpublished Borges manuscript found in Argentina's National Library

on Mittwoch, 04 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Buenos Aires, Sep 5 (EFE).- Researchers combing the archives of Argentina's National Library have found an unpublished manuscript written by literary giant Jorge Luis Borges.

A lucky find, but not for her

on Sonntag, 08 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: September 09, 2013

Curiosity got the better of Christine Ridout a year ago when she browsed through an estate sale at a Buffalo home and spotted the gray cardboard glove box on a kitchen table.

Inside were six fragile, tattered documents. The timeworn parchment and graceful handwriting were eye-catching.

Museum gift fills out Lincoln family's story

on Sonntag, 15 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

The documents offer a new layer of understanding to the 16th president's often-overshadowed descendants, museum officials said Saturday.

By Jonathan Bullington, Tribune reporter, 6:56 a.m. CDT, September 16, 2013

More than 70 documents belonging to Abraham Lincoln's family have joined the collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, officials there said.

Professor Says He Has Solved a Mystery Over a Slave’s Novel

on Dienstag, 17 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By JULIE BOSMAN, Published: September 18, 2013

In 2002, a novel thought to be the first written by an African-American woman became a best seller, praised for its dramatic depiction of Southern life in the mid-1850s through the observant eyes of a refined and literate house servant.

The Strange Saga of Clancy Smyres and Why His Autograph is More Valuable Than Babe Ruth

on Sonntag, 22 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

September 23, 2013 By Jim Stinson

Clancy Smyres played in five major league games for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1944 , had two major league at bats and a lifetime batting average of .000.

Historic Mohave County records rescued - but why did they need saving?

on Dienstag, 24 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Decades of documents were abandoned at Kingman Airport

KINGMAN - Nearly 100 years of Mohave County records would have disappeared into the desert dust if it had not been for the Mohave Museum of History and Arts.

Capone Correspondence Revealing

on Dienstag, 08 Oktober 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

The Manuscript Society News, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, 2013

“Here is your friend Al Capone, writing you this letter from here.” A recently sold cache of correspondence from the collection of Capone’s Florida physician pulls back the curtain on the once-fearsome mobster’s final years.

Long-forgotten Oswald files resurface in Dallas

on Dienstag, 15 Oktober 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

by TINA FOSTER

Long-forgotten Oswald files resurface in Dallas
DALLAS — Files containing historic documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy were presented to Dallas County officials on Tuesday.

The digital Dickinson

on Mittwoch, 23 Oktober 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Sophisticated site gathers her poems, in her handwriting, for all to see and study

By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer

A biographer once praised reticent and retiring Emily Dickinson for “the modest littleness of her person.”

So what might this 19th-century poet make of the decidedly immodest archive of her poems being released today, bringing to light in one digital place most of her surviving manuscripts?

Ransom Paid for 1874 Kidnapping

on Freitag, 15 November 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Ransom Paid for 1874 Kidnapping
An anonymous buyer purchased the Charley Ross kidnapping letters for $20,000

Springsteen’s Handwritten ‘Born to Run’ Lyrics Head to Auction

on Mittwoch, 27 November 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By ALLAN KOZINN

The lyrics to “Born to Run,” the evocative title track of Bruce Springsteen’s third album, from 1975, seem to roll off Mr. Springsteen’s tongue on the recording, a torrent of inspired urban car-culture imagery.

Springsteen's Handwritten 'Born To Run' Lyrics Fetch $197,000 At Auction

on Mittwoch, 08 Januar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

Handwritten lyrics to Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 hit “Born to Run” sold today at Sotheby’s in New York for $197,000.

Jane Austen fragment found: but what's behind it?

on Montag, 03 Februar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

by Alison Flood

Scrap of paper, transcribing part of a sermon by her brother, shows imprint of other writing on its reverse, which scholars are investigating

Lost Albert Einstein Manuscript Reveals Alternative Big Bang Theory

on Dienstag, 25 Februar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By Hannah Osborne

Albert Einstein once suggested an alternative theory to the Big Bang in a previously undiscovered manuscript.

Historians unravel mystery of cryptic Lincoln note

on Samstag, 08 März 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

Historians believe they’ve unraveled the mystery of a cryptic note Lincoln penned that doesn’t identify the recipient by name and has a section clipped out.

In an Era of Squiggles, You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Handwriting Analyst

on Freitag, 28 März 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By TYLER KEPNER

In an Era of Squiggles, You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Handwriting Analyst
The walls of the steakhouse at Yankee Stadium are decorated with signatures of past Yankee greats. David Robertson, the team’s young closer, marvels at the fact that he can read the names.

Samuel Beckett manuscript of first published novel to go on display

on Montag, 09 Juni 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

Nobel laureate's notebooks that cost Reading University almost £1m at auction will be on show for just one day

Photograph: Jane Bown for the Guardian

Six cheap dark blue notebooks, sacred relics to admirers of Samuel Beckett, will go on display this week for the first time since an English university paid almost £1m for them at auction.

President Harding’s steamy love letters with Carrie Phillips to go on display

on Samstag, 05 Juli 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By Michael E. Ruane

On Christmas Eve, 1910, future president Warren G. Harding got out a photograph of himself, and on the back wrote an impassioned love note to his mistress.

Did Bach’s wife write his finest works?

on Samstag, 25 Oktober 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

by Hannah Furness

JS Bach and his wife, Anna Magdalena - Photo: Alamy

Martin Jarvis, professor of music at Charles Darwin University in Australia, claims some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s best-loved works were actually written by his wife.

Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife

on Freitag, 02 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Grandson of Irish dramatist has unearthed medical evidence in private family letters which points to likely cause of death

Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife
The sudden death of the wife of Oscar Wilde at the tender age of 40 has long been a mystery. In the 116 years since she met her tragic end, speculative theories have ranged from spinal damage following a fall down stairs to syphilis caught from her husband. Now the mystery may have been solved.

Judge to finally rule in bitter legal dispute between Martin Luther King Jr's sons and daughter over sale of his Nobel Peace Prize and Bible which Obama used at his 2012 inauguration

on Montag, 12 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Judge to finally rule in bitter legal dispute between Martin Luther King Jr's sons and daughter over sale of his Nobel Peace Prize and Bible which Obama used at his 2012 inauguration
  • Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King plan to sell their father's Bible and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize to a private buyer  
  • Their sister Bernice refused to hand over the items and opposes the sale
  • Last March, she handed them to a court and they remained in a safe
  • A judge will pass verdict or send the case to trial on Tuesday
  • The Bible was last seen at Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2013 

X-Rays Reveal Snippets From Papyrus Scrolls That Survived Mount Vesuvius

on Dienstag, 20 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Buried by a volcano, the scorched papyri may yet yield their secrets. written by Dan Vergano, National Geographic

X-Rays Reveal Snippets From Papyrus Scrolls That Survived Mount Vesuvius
The charred scrolls of ancient Herculaneum may yet yield their secrets, suggests an x-ray analysis released Tuesday of one previously impenetrable roll of papyrus.

All the Presidents’ Memorabilia

on Dienstag, 27 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By SERGE F. KOVALESKI

All the Presidents’ Memorabilia
Jordan M. Wright’s collection of political memorabilia is unquestionably prodigious.

Consisting of perhaps a million-plus items, amassed over four decades, it includes an assortment of ephemera like a George W. Bush piñata and a portrait of Lincoln made of seed and saplings, but also legions of important historical artifacts, like a George Washington picture flag from his swearing in and a purse with a Warren G. Harding logo that was used to attract newly enfranchised female voters.

Fire rages through library in Moscow

on Mittwoch, 04 Februar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Fire rages through library in Moscow
A fire has destroyed parts of one of Russia's largest public libraries, containing more than 14 million items.

Magna Carta worth £10m found in council archives

on Sonntag, 08 Februar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Agency

Magna Carta worth £10m found in council archives
Forgotten version of historical parchment that established principle of rule of law discovered in files of history department of Kent County Council in Maidstone

Scheide Donation Is Largest in University’s History

on Mittwoch, 04 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Written by: Anne Levin

William Hurd Scheide, the Princeton philanthropist, bibliophile, and musicologist who died at age 100 last November, has left his collection of some 2,500 rare books and manuscripts to his alma mater, Princeton University. The bequest, announced Monday and valued at nearly $300 million, represents the largest donation in the University’s history.

Vatican held to ransom over stolen Michelangelo documents

on Sonntag, 08 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Harriet Alexander

Vatican held to ransom over stolen Michelangelo documents
In popular imagination the Vatican is, away from the hallowed halls, a place of dark corridors, skulduggery and shady secrets.

On Sunday the Pope’s press secretary appeared to give weight to the Hollywood image, with the remarkable announcement that the Vatican had received a ransom demand for the return of two rare documents written by Renaissance master Michelangelo, which were stolen from its archives nearly 20 years ago.

Strange But True Tale of How Biggest Nazi Archive Wound Up in Colorado

on Mittwoch, 11 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Path to Boulder Paved by Shady Deals and Holocaust Denial, written by Uriel Heilman

Strange But True Tale of How Biggest Nazi Archive Wound Up in Colorado
BOULDER, COLORADO — (JTA) — The yellowing document is crumbling and fading, but the smooth signature on its cover is as legible as it is chilling: Rudolf Hess, the Nazi who served as a Hitler deputy from 1933 to 1941.

The Greatest Sale Of George Washington Historical Documents Ever Conducted

on Dienstag, 17 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

by Nathan Raab

The Greatest Sale Of George Washington Historical Documents Ever Conducted
Would you pay $1,250 to be the proud owner of George Washington’s original daily prayer book?  How about his Last Will and Testament?  Would that be worth $1,400 to you?   There are also Washington documents for $30.  Seem too good to be true?  It is not, but to cash in you would need to have been bidding in 1891.

'American Pie' lyrics sell for $1.2 million

on Dienstag, 07 April 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Todd Leopold, CNN

(CNN) That's some rich "American Pie."

The lyrics to the famed Don McLean song sold for $1.2 million Tuesday morning at an auction held by Christie's.

When Obama signs a bill he doesn’t always use his own hand

on Mittwoch, 06 Mai 2015. Posted in General Autograph News, Autograph forgeries

When Obama signs a bill he doesn’t always use his own hand
Just because the president signs legislation into law, doesn’t mean the president actually signs the legislation.

Court Stops Sell-Off of Franz Kafka Manuscripts, Awards Portfolio Worth Millions to Israel Library

on Dienstag, 07 Juli 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

written by Amah-Rose Abrams

Court Stops Sell-Off of Franz Kafka Manuscripts, Awards Portfolio Worth Millions to Israel Library
After a long and—cough—Kafkaesque legal battle, a rare collection of author Franz Kafka's manuscripts, worth millions, have been awarded to Israel National Library by a court in Tel Aviv.

Soon, digitalised unpublished version of Nehru's handwritten autography

on Samstag, 14 November 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Vinod Khanal | TNN

Soon, digitalised unpublished version of Nehru's handwritten autography
ALLAHABAD: People across the globe would soon be able to read the unpublished handwritten autography of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru titled 'In and out of Prison'.

Ringo Starr possessions fetch $9.2m at auction

on Sonntag, 06 Dezember 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Ringo Starr possessions fetch $9.2m at auction
An auction of more than 1,300 clothes, instruments, pieces of jewellery and other items owned by Ringo Starr has raised a total of $9.2m (£6.1m).

An Intern Saved a Museum by Finding This Revolutionary War Treasure in the Attic

on Freitag, 11 Dezember 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

The obvious lesson: never throw anything away

An Intern Saved a Museum by Finding This Revolutionary War Treasure in the Attic
Once in a very long while, a rare book or manuscript discovery is so remarkable that it makes national headlines.  In 1988, for instance, an anonymous Massachusetts collector recovered an 1827 first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane from a roadside barn. Many will also recall the 1989 story of the man who found an original broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence hidden inside a picture frame that he bought at a Pennsylvania flea market for $4 (and later sold at Sotheby’s for $2.4 million). 

Chairman Mao letter to Clement Attlee fetches £605,000

on Dienstag, 15 Dezember 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Chairman Mao letter to Clement Attlee fetches £605,000
A 1937 letter from Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong to then-Labour Party leader Clement Attlee has sold at auction for £605,000 ($918,000).

New York Businessman Leon Black Buys Bomberg Talmud for $9.3 Million

on Dienstag, 22 Dezember 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

A number of medieval Hebrew texts from the Valmadonna Trust Library were sold at Sotheby’s on Tuesday.
By Jonathan Zalman

James Bond Aston Martin DB10 Spectre car sold for £2.4m

on Freitag, 19 Februar 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

James Bond Aston Martin DB10 Spectre car sold for £2.4m
An Aston Martin sports car from the James Bond film Spectre has sold at auction for £2,434,500.

The DB10, one of only two "show cars" from the 10 made specially for the film, smashed its reserve price of £1m.

Albert Einstein's notebook and Dead Sea Scrolls fragments among historic manuscripts struggling to find buyer

on Dienstag, 01 März 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

The value of the collection amassed by the Aristophil group has been estimated at hundreds of millions of euros

Albert Einstein's notebook and Dead Sea Scrolls fragments among historic manuscripts struggling to find buyer
Featuring fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, sheet music signed by Mozart and Albert Einstein’s notebook, it is certainly an eclectic collection.

Muhammad Ali's Rumble in the Jungle trunks to auction

on Mittwoch, 04 Mai 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

Muhammad Ali wore the trunks in his 1974 Rumble in the Jungle bout against Foreman (written by Paul Fraser Collectibles)

Muhammad Ali's Rumble in the Jungle trunks to auction
The trunks Muhammad Ali wore in his 1974 Rumble in the Jungle fight against George Foreman will sell at Grey Flannel Auctions.

They're offered with an opening bid of $30,250.

These Iconic American Documents Are Up for Sale

on Donnerstag, 19 Mai 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

by Claire Zillman

These Iconic American Documents Are Up for Sale
They’re expected to fetch millions.
Can you put a price on history? Sotheby’s is going to try.

Charles Darwin letter returned to Smithsonian over 30 years after theft

on Donnerstag, 02 Juni 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

by Alan Yuhas

Charles Darwin letter returned to Smithsonian over 30 years after theft
The 1875 letter, part of correspondence between British scientist and Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, was stolen by an employee in mid-1970s, FBI said

Why Handwriting Is Still Essential in the Keyboard Age

on Montag, 20 Juni 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

By PERRI KLASS, M.D.

Why Handwriting Is Still Essential in the Keyboard Age
Do children in a keyboard world need to learn old-fashioned handwriting?

There is a tendency to dismiss handwriting as a nonessential skill, even though researchers have warned that learning to write may be the key to, well, learning to write.

1971 Muhammad Ali gloves to sell at Goldin Auctions

on Dienstag, 12 Juli 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

Muhammad Ali wore the gloves in the 1971 Fight of the Century

1971 Muhammad Ali gloves to sell at Goldin Auctions
The gloves the late Muhammad Ali wore in his 1971 Fight of the Century against Joe Frazier are to sell at Goldin Auctions.

Bidding closes on August 4.

Autographed Trump Hats and Books Sold on His Website Were Signed by Machine

on Freitag, 18 November 2016. Posted in General Autograph News, Autograph forgeries

By DARREN ROVELL, ABC News

Autographed Trump Hats and Books Sold on His Website Were Signed by Machine
Throughout now-President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, countless money was raised by offering signed items in exchange for a donation.

Handwritten Anne Frank poem sells at auction for £119,000

on Mittwoch, 23 November 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

by Harriet Sherwood

Handwritten Anne Frank poem sells at auction for £119,000
Auction of 12-line text in Dutch from 1942, a rare example of the young Jewish girl’s handwriting for sale, took just two minutes

What Is Donald Trump's Autograph Worth?

on Donnerstag, 08 Dezember 2016. Posted in General Autograph News

by Nathan Raab

What Is Donald Trump's Autograph Worth?
All you throngs of autograph seekers, you hopeful masses of autograph sellers, those of you putting together autograph collections of the presidents, and yet others who visited a bookstore and got President-elect Trump to sign a book, all now visiting the same oracle.  What is an autograph of President-elect Trump worth?

Jacqueline Kennedy’s marriage proposal letters to sell

on Donnerstag, 16 Februar 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

Jacqueline Kennedy’s previously unseen letters to British diplomat David Ormsby Gore turning down his marriage proposal will be offered at Bonhams later this month.

Autograph law in California highlights government failure

on Montag, 22 Mai 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

by The Oklahoman Editorial Board

THERE'S a reason so many citizens are skeptical of politicians' promises that government can solve societal woes. Even when politicians try to address simple problems, their “solutions” can prove both ineffective and counterproductive.

This is why you will never get an autograph from your favourite royals

on Montag, 14 August 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

by FRANCESCA WALLACE

This is why you will never get an autograph from your favourite royals

Royal rules to know. 

Sometimes they’re confusing, sometimes they make total sense, and other times we get a little confused.
Welcome to the world of royals. 

Hepburn’s ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ Script Sold at Auction

on Freitag, 29 September 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

By Brecken Branstrator

Hepburn’s ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ Script Sold at Auction

London--Wearing a black dress and a pearl necklace, Holly Golightly strolls up to the windows of renowned retailer Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue in the iconic opening of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

Now, the jeweler has bought a part of that history. 

Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million

on Mittwoch, 25 Oktober 2017. Posted in General Autograph News

Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million
The year 1922 was a busy one for Albert Einstein: He completed his first paper on unified field theory, went to Paris to help normalize French-German relations and joined an intellectuals committee at the League of Nations.

THE RISE OF THE ROBOGRAPH SIGNATURE, PART ONE!

on Dienstag, 03 April 2018. Posted in General Autograph News, Autograph forgeries

by Garry King

THE RISE OF THE ROBOGRAPH SIGNATURE, PART ONE!
"Robographs"  (a name i have coined for want of something better) are autographs created by a robot machine.  These are now becoming the scourge of the autograph world, and are becoming increasingly difficult to spot as the forgers get more proficient. These are even now fooling some good dealers and auction houses, so beware!

Stolen Christopher Columbus Letter Returned to Vatican, But Mystery Persists

on Dienstag, 19 Juni 2018. Posted in General Autograph News

Stolen Christopher Columbus Letter Returned to Vatican, But Mystery Persists

The letter, which had been printed in 1493, was replaced with a convincing fake—and investigators still don’t know who committed the crime

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? – HERE’S THE UNFORGED TRUTH

on Montag, 29 Oktober 2018. Posted in General Autograph News

by David Lowenherz

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? – HERE’S THE UNFORGED TRUTH
The true story behind “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” told by the NY dealer who wore a “wire” during the FBI sting operation. 

The True Story of Lee Israel and the Literary Forgeries in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

on Freitag, 04 Januar 2019. Posted in General Autograph News

Melissa McCarthy plays the biographer-turned-forger in a Golden Globe nominated performance.

The True Story of Lee Israel and the Literary Forgeries in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lee Israel came late to a life of crime. Though her forgeries of letters from luminaries like Louise Brooks, Dorothy Parker, and Ernest Hemingway would ultimately become a far more enduring legacy than her work as a biographer, the criminal enterprise that inspired the upcoming film Can You Ever Forgive Me? comprised a mere three years of the author's life.