The hounds on Washingtons Capitol hill continue to circle President Obama for his autograph – Could a signed speech program really be worth $5,000?
March 5, 2009 by Richard Budman ·
We can’t deny a certain glee around HoundsTV when we hear the stories of congressman, lawmakers, and Washington’s elite up on Capitol Hill clamoring to get President Obama to autograph anything at any chance they get. We’ve noticed for a while how very in-demand the current Presidents autograph is. The media didn’t wait long first reporting on this trend with Obama’s signature.
Time magazine has now picked up on the story with a feature, What the GOP Really Wants: Obama’s Autograph on the recent rush to get the President to sign his inaugural State of the Nation speech program during February, 2009. The Time article goes on to describe how many in attendance acted around Obama:
“(they) crowded around him like starstruck tween girls at a Jonas Brothers concert, all to get his John Hancock on their copies of the speech.”
But HoundsTV also wondered… what would one of those Obama autographed speech programs be worth?
We put that question to the resident autograph collectible expert around here, Brad Byrne. While Byrne admits placing a value on such a unique collectible, when maybe only a dozen or so speech programs were actually signed by the President and its very doubtful any would actually get into the marketplace for sale.
But if one did. Byrne said he could see somebody or maybe one of the collectors he knows pay “Maybe $3,000. Perhaps as high as $5,000 for an Obama signed speech program. There is no question Obama is the hottest autograph on the market right now and supply is very limited at the moment.”
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