Autograph Poll - Signature On The Card Or Case?

[KingPokemon]

@smpratte

@garyis2000, I thought about getting a trophy pikachu signed, but quickly realized signings are still in their infancy.

Ultimately these are different markets. A lot of the people responding cynically don’t participate in the market. It reminds me of people who say, “pokemon is for kids her der”. Its so dismissive and misses the entire point of why people are collecting. Collecting signatures is entirely because of the sentimentality and history. Sure there are elements of market value and opportunity, like in any collectible, but that isn’t the core. Most people simply love a card signed by the artist because it adds an emotional layer/value for them.

Undoubtedly. It certainly adds an emotional layer and therein lies the value for most. For many, the item signed doesn’t even matter. I have two signed items by Mohammed Ali. One is a boxing glove. The other is a restaurant napkin. If I had to lose one in a fire, losing the glove would be an easy decision.

[chrispy]

@smpratte

@garyis2000 , I thought about getting a trophy pikachu signed, but quickly realized signings are still in their infancy.

Ultimately these are different markets. A lot of the people responding cynically don’t participate in the market. It reminds me of people who say, “pokemon is for kids hurr dur”. Its so dismissive and misses the entire point of why people collect. Collecting signatures is entirely because of the sentimentality and history. Sure there are elements of market value and opportunity, like in any collectible, but that isn’t the core. Most people simply love a card signed by the artist because it adds an emotional layer/value for them.

I only had one opportunity to get a card signed this past year and a lot of people told me to go with a $50 nm card and get it signed so I could try to have the autograph “graded” for a high autograph grade. Point being, you could potentially increase the price of an otherwise cheap card. Instead I opted to get a PSA10’s slab graded. No real way to know that a PSA 10 would be a card you could grade for both unless you cracked it and then crossed your fingers that it re-graded as a psa10 with a high grade for the autograph as well. Just doesn’t make much sense to me from a collector OR flipping standpoint. What’s the “down” side of having the slab graded on a psa10? As for high end cards that are already worth a shit ton on their own, again, the only way I see people having them signed directly is if the high end card is in shape to only receive a 6 or 7 and they think getting it slabbed for auto at a 10 will increase the value.

[EnlightenedBulbasaur]

I mentioned it before, but am I the only one who thinks that the quality of the signature itself makes a *big* difference?

This is what an ideal signature on a Pokemon card looks like IMO:

It’s a very nice looking signature and does nothing to take away from the art of the card itself.

…I wish I found most of Arita’s signatures to be as appealing.

[mossdeep]

sketches are what do it for me … art inside of art