Show 1 Y 1 t 5 II II- II H NAME q 1 II ll t II u Autographs of if Great Great n I Bring Big i Cash Prices to tu Possessors Who hu Will Viii i Sell 5 Of all forms of relic hunting that limit of auto autographs Is t at once the time the most must In- In 11 and amid fascinating looked at nt from any ammy m the the purely literary literary liter liter- ar ary or time the sot sordid One time the one ammo hand baud pi letters Idlers o of world famous personages never cr 10 intended tot for the public eye mm Ill I often afford an ami amazing ing Int n revelation of oC true character hitherto hith hll- hll erto to unsuspected and amid uld on un tho other holograph letters of the time treat great arc valuable property as likely lo tu Increase e eIn in iii value alue as a a ci city loci bet Little Litte did ellel Shakespeare's l cu dream that Jc cn business b m men n among amolS hl his posterity would mould POt post a standing offer of twenty thousand fOI for Inc lt briefest from rom roam the worlds world's greatest poet poet There is 18 no Iu denying the tho charm of oC handling time the Q private t te correspondence 01 ot men and anu ant women whose names lames loom 1001 largo large on aim tho time page of and anel tim tho th- th national collections of f Europe hold mold holdman man many precious examples never no likely to get into inlo the time market markot Thus who would not miot be bu Interested ted In iii Shakespeare's Shake Shake- speare's own signature on UI hi his imis will wI In Somerset set House London Or 01 In iii a u letter let let- ter lei from Napoleon expressing pus pun pal pal- disgust with lifo Ifa and the mm world UIl arid generally That by the way haul had a mo most t Interesting sequel A week weck after It was written Nelson I leJ on do destroy led l'- l' ed od the French Heel fleet at time Iho Nile G seized this vcr very cry human document nt and amid In InI In- In elored H ii I. I Found on the time joron person of if i I the time courier One Omme can cami buy a letter leter of or Garibaldi's for COI three doJan dollars seventeen se dollars Wendell Holmes four foum Cou dollars Lamb thirty dollars Jenny Lind about the hanging of hal a murder er cc five dollars Longfellow dollars the time great real Duke of Marlborough Nail Marl ko borough thirty dollars Do Dc ono oie UIO llY-UIO dollars oJars Iu twenty dollars n bunt six i dola dollars I Sir Sim h Walter aUel Scotts Scott's though he he- was mis a voluminous al alway al- al ways way bring good nod prices A P COUI page four loiter letter from SC Jeter roam Abbotsford dated October Ul 21 l. l 1812 to lo time the poet pool Crabbe on the respective merits meris of oC their melt poetry Is 18 worth nearly one omme hundred dollars collars Yet H a brief brier letter about his wife's fatal Catal Illness Distress makes mals tem tc ly vel- vel f Shah h cm of us us sold to Iu a collector col cul- lector for fUl only two twenty tto dola dollar ma But it I u often ten happens that hint one sentence sent sell sell- ence 01 or the time choice choie of n a I subject will wil make maJc all al tIn the tie difference in iii un aim auto auto- autographs autograph's autographs autograph's autographs graphs graph's price Thus though h Tenny- Tenny bolls boll's marl market el value in iii this HIM lons lon's alu h. h ordinary WU way I Is rarely more inure than luau dol- dol tul- tul Ian lais a most I letter with wih reference to lo hits his lost lust poem Arm nm sold for three hundred and twenty dollars If Time fmc Times Flumes ii wont won't Int put It ll In iii In he lie sa says bays tend send enel it i to The TIme Morning Chron Chromi- Ice icle ide Tho The Athenaeum anywhere Thackery's letters always UIUS bright an and amid amusing and lam lal hugely gely Tely Illustrated with comic drawings invariably il bring i good prices at al at un any rate late to to tu UI up seven seven- o cn lt e ty live dollars But a u much larger larsel price was was iras pu u Iii hI tor UI or a most mOH curious at al G Austria on a Saturday alU a in July 18 1852 i to lo a i Vienna banker referring to iii the time t loss logs of time the famous novelists novelist's pocket pocket- Cl- Cl j I book bool containing all al hl his mis monc money The Time must Interesting letter of oC Wash ash I hl ington tul al 01 present In iti time the market cl is ono ammo i 01 UI I iwo s II SJ dated from from rom February 1 II If 1 1777 B Evidently it H i is only part PaIt of a long JI amid and ild important epistle addicted lu to some sume rc ita tire of a state star which desired tn- tn to tl re re- re main neutral during tho time war mini Ho lie le men men- lions liens tons the time Declaration of oC I Independence hut but part u of the time right hand earlier corner of if lie iho letter leler Is 11 off In iii t the ime fold and amid In lag Ing lot lost whereby wi lalim cem-lalim words arc ro 11 miss miss- Upon tho lie whole Americas America's I hero says sas It Jl appears t to tl me mime- that th l I a IC hut hint two tivo kinds of uC people will wi complain much of ur the Proclamation namely those thise that thai arc c really disaffected and unel such as ON want to lie b by und unel lc wait wul the time issued of tho Iho dispute Fm The first class can not lul be vand nd tho limo next arc are ing to play a double game gamo The price of Tie If thu letter leUcI llie lars Jars Is ono Oie im hundred and live dol du- geries Now Nom and I It I lla for for- are ml put iut on ull ii th the market but e mute are the almost in detected by Ly the lie microscope cOC amid nd camera long ago Dr DI R. n A. A nc Not Noli i professor of j i criminology al at It the University Lau of Wa was h handed uH d at nl collection of mf f autographs a great greal purporting to tu be lie those l' l of uC I statesman of the eighteenth century whose letters I rare Dr DI are arc extremely graph the time proceeded t i Photograph photograph photo photo- I make nu hi his prints on care Ct aze to I exactly the same sume tume i I I sea scale it and amid siar izo I Ho Ip tt was was imus amazed to Ii find lid l that tt time tho C es tallied exactly I Now Non to tt find time the thC 1 signatures of the same coi LOi responding with wih such a minute dC degree of oC H iu accuracy absolutely impossible Sible and the hit whole collection of If autographs was at once pronounced spurious S with iti Ih time tho result t that ha t the prospective iVl buyer Was as sav Sll saved d eighteen thuu thousand dollars I 1 It t was af af- shown that the time alleged signa- signa lures were mere melc replicas obtained h by ly II lithographic printing ag utter after which the thu forger had liui gone ule over O tho thio loiters with a pen en and unc ink to 0 give give- o I them a 8 wih veri cri ll similitude which h was WiS all al but perfect |