Valuable Autographs Often Show up at Live Auctions Today, when most people think auctions, the next thought is eBay, but before the internet auctions were mostly "live auctions;" that is, with an auctioneer and an audience with paddles in their hands. The old comedy sketch about the fellow afraid to scratch his nose is a classic. I don't attend many auctions, but they are alive and well. In fact, many eBay sellers buy some of their inventory this way.I did attend one very good auction awhile back. An antique dealer's gambling addiction got him in trouble, and the government ordered his $2 million dollar inventory auctioned off to the highest bidders. I added some nice ones to my collection that day at a very nice price: P.T. Barnum, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Nast (he basically invented our image of Santa Clause), Henry Clay, Booker T. Washington, World War 1 Flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, Peter Cooper (invented jell-o and a ton of more important things), General George Marshall as Secretary of Defense, and some other good ones. If you get a chance to bid at one like I described, don't let it pass you by.
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