dejapooh
Bronze Member
John Naber won 4 Olympic Gold Medals in 1976. Every year, on June 23, he puts on an Olympic Day event in Pasadena. Last night was the event. He has me gather the Olympic collectors, I set up tables and we show off and talk about our collections to the people before the event. Lase night, at the end of the event, he told the collectors to meet him at his car, he had some old stuff for us. The 8 of us hung around, and he explained that he was going to sell the stuff out of the box. Bids are $1 increments, maximum bid was $20. If you say, "$20," auction is over, it is yours. He starts to pull stuff out, and some of it is interesting, books by Annie Liebowitz about the Olympics. Autographed items that he had been given. Cool, but nothing that rocked my boat (I generally don't like hanging collectibles). He pulls out a tube of posters. Budweiser asked him to paint "swimming" and they made it into posters and distributed them. I bought 5 of his posters for $3. He is going to autograph them for me, so that's pretty cool.
Next item out of the box, as soon as I see what it is, I yell, "$20!" It is a Peanuts poster from a Banquet in Santa Rosa (where Charles Schultz lived), it was autographed on the bottom, "For John, Charles Schultz" uh... rare print from a sports banquet, autographed by Charles Schultz to John Naber, the Guest of Honor? I think so!
Next item out of the box John says, "Oh, these are cool, these are the certificates I got for setting worlds records."
"$20!" 8 certificates, 7 of them from when he was at the Olympics in Montreal, one for the trials for Montreal... 3 from the U.S. Swimming Coaches association. 5 from FINA, the international body that governs everything swimming... $2.50 per certificate! He's offered to meet me in Pasadena to autograph everything. I was thinking it would be better to write up a letter for each item, explaining what each item was, then having him sign the letter and have it notarized to PROVE what they are and that they were his... Do you think that is the right way to go about this?
Next item out of the box, as soon as I see what it is, I yell, "$20!" It is a Peanuts poster from a Banquet in Santa Rosa (where Charles Schultz lived), it was autographed on the bottom, "For John, Charles Schultz" uh... rare print from a sports banquet, autographed by Charles Schultz to John Naber, the Guest of Honor? I think so!
Next item out of the box John says, "Oh, these are cool, these are the certificates I got for setting worlds records."
"$20!" 8 certificates, 7 of them from when he was at the Olympics in Montreal, one for the trials for Montreal... 3 from the U.S. Swimming Coaches association. 5 from FINA, the international body that governs everything swimming... $2.50 per certificate! He's offered to meet me in Pasadena to autograph everything. I was thinking it would be better to write up a letter for each item, explaining what each item was, then having him sign the letter and have it notarized to PROVE what they are and that they were his... Do you think that is the right way to go about this?
