Magnum PI Cast Signed Photo
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:01 am
Hi ThomasMagnum,ThomasMagnum wrote:Just saw this come up, for those interested
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Magnum-PI-Cast ... rk:24:pf:0
A "Magnum PI Cast Signed Photo Selleck Hillerman Manetti Mosley for $97.99"? That's more than fair as one might have gotten both Manetti and Mosley at the same autograph fair but then you'd have to get Selleck and the reclusive(now dead) Hillerman which could take years. When the bidding ends I bet it gets at least $300.00, as Magnum PI is certified classic TV and like Bonanza will be running 50 years later around the globe.
I used to dabble for a year or two in the 1980's in autographed photos, and when I was a kid my father encouraged history buff me to write the still
living leaders of WW 2. Tito, Jimmy Doolittle, Omar Bradley, later French president Mitterand(he fought with the Vichy Army!) and others sent not only autographed photos but letters. But Field Marshal Montgomery(who notably helped out the Boy Scouts and other groups that molded teen's character)
also sent me a weathered Travel chess set with the chessmen modeled on British and French soldiers at Waterloo that he said he had had for 40 years,
and since he was purging his home of accumulated clutter he "thought I might like it".
Okay I got side tracked, I wanted to say that you autograph seekers should keep your letter short but include something personal about them, to show you just aren't after a photo you can turn around and sell. Jimmy Cagney lived for a few years when a young actor in Berkley Heights in the Watchung Mtns a few towns over, so I mentioned that to him and asked if he had been to my town. He sent back not just one but two autographed photos and a note typed by his secretary that he signed saying he was at his happiest living there.
I lost all the letters sent me in a basement flood - had the photos upstairs -and my brother's bum friend stole Monty's chess set. Generally possessions and 'toys' mean nothing to me but that chess set meant a lot. It'll probably wind up on E Bay as well someday, if it does I don't want to know.
