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Show The Worth of Autographs. Autograph collecting is a very innocent inno-cent though somewhat costly hobby. My collection has cost me over $ ")()0, and its cash value to-day is over 000. Autographs have their cash prices and will always fetch them. Tho signature signa-ture of a President of the United States is worth $1 that is to say any since Garfield. Garfield's is cheap nt $2. and Lincoln's at $10. A letter written by Liue.olu early in the war has been sold for Thomas Jefferson's signature fetches $10 and is very scarce. Foreign autographs run high. Tho lirst Napoleon's Napo-leon's is worth between fc'O to $50; Dr. Johnson's about the same. Queen Victoria's is sold as low as ffi.60. and is often a forgery at that. The Prince of Wales has been very sparing with his autographs, and the only one I ever knew of being sold brought $12.50. Lord lieaconslield's is worth $5, but as Mr. Gladstone will courteously reply to any letter sent him, his autograph is a drug in the market, and has scarcely any cash value at all. Boulant er's autograph used to sell for f 1, aud Bismarck's is worth three times that rtmonnt. |