Autograph Collector Mary Pickford’s book of famous signatures up for auction - Wells, Edison, Mussolini, Shaw, Earhart, and Eisenhower among the signatures collected
October 27th, 2008 / by Richard
Items from silent screen era star Mary Pickford’s estate go up for auction next month. This one item certainly caught our eye - seems Ms. Pickford was an autograph collector and personally kept a book which she collected the autographs of the famous and interesting people the starlet came into contact with. And she certainly met some doozies. H.G. Wells, Thomas Edison, Benito Mussolini, George Bernard Shaw, Amelia Earhart, U.S. President Eisenhower, and car-maker Henry Ford all signed the book for Mary - often with long and generous personalizations. Early auction catalog estimates has the Pickford autograph book, containing more than 120 signatures all acquired from 1926 to 1981 in the $6,000 to $8,000 range. Our experience with autographs tells us this is a special piece that will probably command 5 times that estimate.
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