A Word (or 125) About Autographs

I have many autographed pieces of LOST memorabilia. The ones I will be sharing on this blog are authentic. I learned an expensive lesson early on in adding to my collection: there are a massive amount of forgeries and disreputable dealers preying on naive and uneducated buyers. And I made some purchases of questionable authenticity. Those items have been retained, but only as a reminder of "Buyer Beware", and "You get what you pay for"...They are stored in a box decorated with a skull and crossbones.

The majority of my collection has been purchased from registered UACC members who maintain storefronts. I only purchase from individuals who offer photographic proof of signing. The Inkworks series of trading cards was another great source of LOST autographs. They are guaranteed to be authentic.

I collect both individual autographs of the cast members of LOST, and multi-signature items from promotional events. The crown jewel of my collection is a cast-signed Season 5 poster from the StandUp2Cancer fundraiser that was offered by LiveAutographs.com. A numbered 'Limited Edition Certificate of Authenticity' accompanied it. The poster features the signatures of most of the Season 5 actors pictured.

The signatures include (l-r) Michael Emerson (below), Evangeline Lilly (above), Matthew Fox (below), Yunjin Kim (above), Jorge Garcia (above), Henry Ian Cusick (below), Terry O'Quinn (below), Josh Holloway (above), Elizabeth Mitchell (above), Ken Leung (below). Daniel Dae Kim signed across the word "Destiny" followed by a question mark. (He is not pictured on the poster - we did not know that Jin had survived the freighter explosion at the time the poster was revealed.)