The Exciting World Of Autograph Collecting

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The hobby of collecting autographs scaled to new heights of popularity during the 1980s. Earlier on it was only children who asked celebrities for their autographs. However, soon people from all age groups began to get interested in philography. Seeing the huge market potential of autographs as memorabilia, the dealers and celebrities started charging money for their signatures and a once innocent hobby became a commercial venture.

The history of autographs is rather interesting. When you flip through the pages of history you realize that being given an autograph by the aristocracy was considered a huge honor in East Asia. An item, which had a high officials signature, was considered to be of high value. In China during dynastic rule, the emperors autograph was considered priceless and selling of such an item was considered a criminal offense!

There are many famous personalities who always oblige their fans by signing autographs free of cost. This makes them more popular and helps retain the innocence of the hobby. Some extremely popular kids idols like Hillary Duff are known to willingly sign autographs for their fans. In fact Hillary Duff publicly lashed out to...

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