This document provides tips for starting an autograph collection. It recommends beginning by researching autograph collecting online or in forums to learn techniques and identify commonly forged signatures. Novices should thoroughly research celebrities' signing habits and preferences before acquiring autographs either through mail requests or purchases. The document stresses keeping detailed records and learning authentication methods to verify authenticity, as well as properly storing and displaying autographs in acid-free materials to preserve the collection.

1. How to Start an Autograph
Collection
By The Autograph Auction

2. Introduction
• The Autograph Auction offers certified authentic
autographs for sale online. The Autograph
Auction collects all of its autographs in person
and issues a guarantee of originality with each
signed item, so that beginning and experienced
collectors can confidently build their collections.

3. About Autograph Collecting
• As is the case with any new hobby, an autograph
collecting endeavor should begin with thorough
research. Fortunately for the collector, the
Internet offers a broad range of tips and
techniques for gathering celebrity signatures.
Novice collectors can begin well by finding a
forum of other collectors and reviewing
information on who signs and what they tend to
sign, as well as which signatures are often
forged.

4. Conclusion
• Collectors can then begin to acquire signed items.
Some people enjoy writing to celebrities to ask them
for signatures, while others prefer to purchase items
already signed. In either case, new collectors should
keep thorough records of whose signatures they seek
and how. Collectors should also become familiar
with authenticating techniques such as stamping
and forgery, and should learn to identify these
should an autograph arrive from an unverified
source. Finally, collectors should acquire a supply of
acid-free frames or storage binders, depending on
display preference, in order to keep autographs in
good condition.