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[Karl Liebl]

Nobody has cared to take a stab at answering my question on how much a Kirby signature is worth in dollars (US CURRENCY) and I think I have posted that FF 13 about 5 times in these forums, it is getting silly.  The best I could tell is about 200 bucks.

[mattn792]

8 minutes ago, kav said:

A $1000 a sig does not seem out of the question.

Heck, possibly much more.  All he’d have to do is point to how many times Stan got $100 per signature.

[James J Johnson]

14 minutes ago, kav said:

A $1000 a sig does not seem out of the question.

$10,000 or more. If there's only one.

[kav]

5 minutes ago, mattn792 said:

Heck, possibly much more.  All he’d have to do is point to how many times Stan got $100 per signature.

I bet $5000/sig would still have a line.  That guy could have printed money so easily.

[kav]

1 minute ago, James J Johnson said:

$10,000 or more. If there's only one.

wut abt 100 sigs?

[mattn792]

3 minutes ago, James J Johnson said:

$10,000 or more. If there's only one.

If it was only one yellow label ever, he should be auctioning it off.  Highest bidder takes it.

[James J Johnson]

3 minutes ago, kav said:

wut abt 100 sigs?

Considerably less. But if some facilitator was cagey enough to somehow procure 100 yellow label Ditkos on vintage AS books that Ditko worked on, and word didn't get out as to how many there were, to make the most of it and not kill the golden goose, he'd have to be extremely patient in slowly, and I do mean slowly filtering them out into the marketplace. One here, one there 6 months later. Another one out 6 months after that. Most are not that patient

[dupont2005]

52 minutes ago, James J Johnson said:

resto is more tangible. The detection of it being more objective than subjective, unlike unwitnessed autograph authentication.

Restoration has gotten past graders though 

[shadroch]

Wouldn't they all show up in the census fairly quickly?

[James J Johnson]

10 minutes ago, kav said:

I bet $5000/sig would still have a line.  That guy could have printed money so easily.

And I'd be one of them camped out on that line with my lawn chair waving my "Let's Go Dit KO" pennant.

[kav]

Just now, James J Johnson said:

And I'd be one of them camped out on that line with my lawn chair waving my "Let's Go Dit KO" pennant.

I would say and I want a cockroach too like the Stan one-

[James J Johnson]

2 minutes ago, dupont2005 said:

Restoration has gotten past graders though 

typically, it's trim that slips by because of the nature of it. It's subtracted, not added, it's not resto, it's destruction, and it's not the first time the book was trimmed!! It was re-trimmed atsome point in time after it was trimmed by the factory. That's more of a detection issue like autograph authenticity opinion. Rather than identifying something tangible that was added, it's a matter of deciding if the book has been trimmed once, by the factory, as all books are, or twice, the second occurring aftermarket. Very similar to trying to decide if a signer's track is authentic!

[shadroch]

 The signature series depends way too much on the honesty of those involved. I'm not sure if an expert opinion is better or worse than a witness. I do know there are people in both fields that I don't fully trust.