Recreational clubs devoted to autograph collecting appeared in the 1850s, and by 1890 there had already been established at least one popular periodical devoted to collecting autographs:The Collectordoubled as a forum for essays on collecting and as a price guide for prospective buyers. It was soo...
This is interesting because every article I've read online about buying/selling has said that authentication is pretty much a requirement - that without it the value of the item goes down for sellers and that buyers should be wary at non-authenticated items. Here most of you are saying that...