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First success and display ?
We've had our first success! My son received a personalized letter from our
state senator! Very nice! I've been lerking for about a week now. This is a exciting hobby, or business for some. I like reading the success stories. I was just wondering what those of you folks that do not sell autographs do with all your autographs. At face value this may sound like a stupid question, but I'm really serious. We intend to frame and hang our autographs on the kid's bedroom walls, but what do you do with yours? Do you keep them in a book? Do you have a file system for them? Do you display them, because it sounds like some of you have collected a lot of them? Do you meet with other collectors in a club, or something where you can share looking at them? What's the best way to store them? All Good Wishes, LJ |
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We've had our first success! My son received a personalized letter from our
state senator! Very nice! Congrats! Who was it?? Was it the senator that represents the whole state of Florida or just certatin sections? There are 2 kinds of senators. I was just wondering what those of you folks that do not sell autographs do with all your autographs. At face value this may sound like a stupid question, but I'm really serious. We intend to frame and hang our autographs on the kid's bedroom walls, but what do you do with yours? Do you keep them in a book? Do you have a file system for them? Do you display them, because it sounds like some of you have collected a lot of them? Do you meet with other collectors in a club, or something where you can share looking at them? What's the best way to store them? All Good Wishes, LJ I keep mine in a book with plastic covers over each autograph. My local library has an area where people can display there collections, so I have been thinking about doing that. A lot of time, I find myself flipping through my autograph collection, because I'm pretty obsessed with collecting. Keep sharing your successes, everyone loves to hear them. Justin |
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Opps, left eye fogged. thought you said bathroom! PHew.... Read the
posts backwards too... anyway, when putting them in the bedroom do something first... go into the room and mark the wall with a pencil in the morning and in the afternoon where the sunlight reaches on both sides and do NOT put your autographs there! Sunlight is the other enemy of autographs. It fades and yellows them. Also, when framing, make sure you do put a matte on them and that the matte is acid free. Keep out of humidity too or they also stick to the mattes and be ruined. Ever try to remove a photo from glass or the plastic sheet in your wallet only to realize you can't? that is why the acid free and the no humidity. my husband had a photo in his wallet and by the wallet on men being in their back pockets, it gets warm from their butts... laugh all you want, but true! This causes the photo to stick to the plastic and not come off. Likewise we had a photo upstairs in a frame of my husbands brother's wedding. The ONLY photo we had of him and he's now passed away. it stuck to the glass because no matting and it was unsalvagable. So remember... no humidity, no sunlight, acid free mattes and one more tip... if you have a poorly insulated outer wall.... if you put anything with a wood frame and glass on it and live in a climate which goes to extreme, over time your wood frame will contract and expande and put pressure on the glass and that could crack, ruining your item. Odd to mention this, it's not that common, but put your hand on your outer wall in the winter and if very cold, be careful!!!!! On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:08:10 GMT, "LJinFLA" wrote: We've had our first success! My son received a personalized letter from our state senator! Very nice! I've been lerking for about a week now. This is a exciting hobby, or business for some. I like reading the success stories. I was just wondering what those of you folks that do not sell autographs do with all your autographs. At face value this may sound like a stupid question, but I'm really serious. We intend to frame and hang our autographs on the kid's bedroom walls, but what do you do with yours? Do you keep them in a book? Do you have a file system for them? Do you display them, because it sounds like some of you have collected a lot of them? Do you meet with other collectors in a club, or something where you can share looking at them? What's the best way to store them? All Good Wishes, LJ |
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Dahoov is absolutely right...when in doubt ACID FREE.
I keep mine in scrapbook albums (acid free natch) so I count mount 4x5/index cards as well as 8x10. I keep a file with photographs/stamps/envelopes/addresses and etc and enter everything in a DB on my computer. Sometimes I obtain autographs for gifts...those I mount and frame since the person is not likely to be a collector. |
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Ok, first off, the senator was only our district one, but the kids are
excited because he sent my son a personal letter telling him he was out of pictures, but to come by his office anytime and he'd be happy to have one taken with him. This gave the kids the encouragement to send away more requests. Second, I do some scrapbooking so I'm aware of acid free products - thanks for reminding me though. Thank you also, for the tips and tricks regarding humidity. I did have to giggle a little, because of the bathroom mis-read.. However, we live in one of the most humid areas of the U.S. - Florida. You know, surrounded by water on three sides, not to mention the Everglades! It is a legitimate concern. I keep the humidity down with the air-conditioning I run almost all of the year, but there are quite a few people I know that do not use the AC like I do and I can see why keeping your autographs dry could be a problem for them. Thanks for the marking on the wall and sunlight instructions...I would have never thought of that! LJ I do some scrapbooking so I'm aware of acid free paper and plastic sleeves "Bcoton" wrote in message ... Dahoov is absolutely right...when in doubt ACID FREE. I keep mine in scrapbook albums (acid free natch) so I count mount 4x5/index cards as well as 8x10. I keep a file with photographs/stamps/envelopes/addresses and etc and enter everything in a DB on my computer. Sometimes I obtain autographs for gifts...those I mount and frame since the person is not likely to be a collector. |
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