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What’s a scribbled signature worth?

Adam Andrusier describes the autograph hunter’s strange fraternity and the vast sums that celebrities’ scrawls can fetch

Hitler obliges a young fan with his autograph. [Getty Images] 
issue 24 July 2021

  • Two Hitlers and a Marilyn: An Autograph Hunter’s Escape from Suburbia

    Adam Andrusier

    Headline, pp. 306, £16

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