Cpt. Caveman's TTM Autographs #7

Hello and welcome back everyone I hope you all had an great week graphing TTM. This week I thought id talk about how I store my autographs to keep them protected. When I started collecting autographs I always framed my autos but I soon ran out of wall space and matting and framing every autograph you get back can get expensive. Now I only frame the larger pictures or posters that wont fit in my Binders. So I found the acid free(acid free is a must) heavy duty page protector's work the best for anything bigger than a 4x6 photo and work with any three ring binders. Usually found anywhere sports cards are sold or WalMart carries them but beware they also sell thin cheap page protectors also but its worth the extra $2 to buy they heavy duty ones. For the majority of my autographs I use three ring photo pages. They hold six 4x6's (three on each side) plus have a small pocket on the top corner that holds my business card sized blank autograph cards (I ordered blank business cards from vistaprint with one side white and the other you can customize however, mine are tie-dyed with my personal autograph collection printed very small I like these better than plain 3x5 index cards and they fit in my wallet incase the need arises you never know who you may run into so I keep cards and a pen on me and a cards and a sharpie in the car. I keep all the pages in good three ring binders the kind you buy for sports cards but any three ring binder would work. This keeps them safe and protected and out of the sunlight. I try to wear gloves when handling them to keep the oils from my hands off the paper. For signed balls I like BALLQUBE and BCW makes great acrylic golf ball holders and ultrapro regular sports card pages and plastic sleeves to store my signed cards This may not be the best way but its worked well for us and is a fairly inexpensive way to store you're collection. Now on to my favorite part and I'm sure yours the weekly successes. Monday brought one of my most wanted and the longest wait for a return. At 14 months it was totally worth the wait for the greatest Jason Voorhees ever Kane Hodder. He's been in so many other great films I loved him in the Hatchet films. Thursday brought the first reply for this season writing to the Walking Dead set in Atlanta. Josh McDermitt signed and personalized the two pictures we sent him almost four month wait and I hope its the start of the Walking Dead returns because I wrote almost every cast member this year. Friday Winter got an amazing return from the voice of Donald Duck himself Tony Anselmo. He been doing the voice work for our favorite duck since the mid 80's took 14 days to return.
To finish off the week Winter got Nascar's Ryan Newman after a two and a half month wait. She sent him one of her serial #d cards to be signed. Well that's it for this week another quality over quantity week but still great to even get one back every week until next time keep graphing and ill be back Wednesday for the mid week bonus blog gameshow/TV hosts edition and next Saturday with our all new successes.

Kane Hodder

26500 Agoura Rd.

#102

Calabasas, CA 91302

Josh McDermitt

The Walking Dead (good till Nov 26th)

Raleigh Studios Atlanta

600 Chestlehurst Rd.

Senoia, GA 30276

Tony Anselmo

The Walt Disney Studios

500 South Buena Vista Street

Burbank, CA 91521

Ryan Newman

Ryan Newman fan club

p.o. Box 6028

Statesville, NC 28687

Cpt. Caveman's Mid Week Bonus Blog-Horror Edition

 

Hello and welcome to my mid week bonus blog all Horror edition. This week im going to show you some of our favorite horror related autographs and the addresses we used to get them. I have always loved horror films growing up in the late 70's and the 80's there were so many amazing horror/slasher films coming out and thanks to VCRs and the local video store i watched every horror flick i could. Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Sleepaway Camp, The Howling, Evil Dead, Critters and so many more great horror films who remembers Chud and The Stuff. So enjoy everyone and ill be back Saturday with this weeks new TTM successes and next weeks mid week topic is Game Show/ TV Hosts. Until then keep sending those letters it wont return if you don't send it. So here's a few of our favorite horror related autographs and addresses.

Craig T. Nelson

c/o Forward entertainment

9255 Sunset blvd

suite 805

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Robert Englund

1278 Glennerye

PMB#73

Laguna Beach, CA 92651

John Carpenter

Storm King Productions

8033 W. Sunset Blvd.

suite 1044

Hollywood, CA 90046

Sean S. Cunningham

Crystal Lake Entertainment

4420 Hayvenhusrt Ave.

Encino, CA 91436

John Hurt

Independent Talent Group, Ltd.

40 Whitfield St.

London W1T 2RH

UK

Michael Berryman

Amsel, Eisenstadt & Frazier & Hinojosa

Talent Agency

5055 Wilshire Blvd.

suite 865

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Naomi Grossman

 Niad Management, Inc.

15021 Ventura Blvd

suite 860

Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

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Jamie Brewer

Kazarian/Spencer/Ruskin & Associates, inc.

11969 Ventura Blvd

3rd Floor

Box 7409

Studio City, CA 91604

 

 

Capt. Caveman's TTM autographs #6

Hello and welcome back fellow TTM graphers to another great week in autograph collecting. This week before I get to the weeks successes I thought Id talk about the dreaded A word and S words in TTM collecting. Autopens and secretarial signature's. So what if that autograph you just received TTM just doesn't look right or doesn't look anything like any known example of there autograph. Well more than likely that celeb pays someone to sign for them like a secretary or sometimes family as is the case with Cary Fisher her mom signs her TTM requests. These are called secretarial signatures alot of celebs use secretary's to fill TTM autograph requests. Alot of people see this as a total failure and I agree to a point its not an authentic signature but at least they took the time to reply to there fans with something instead of refusing or sending pre printed pictures with facsimile autographs. Now autopens are another thing celebs and alot of politicians especially Presidents use to fill requests. Its a machine that signs the persons name for them, they can have several different signature styles. IV seen some autopen signatures that look almost hand signed but most have a squiggly line look to them like shaky handwriting and pressure points at the beginning and end where the pen stayed in one spot just a second longer leaving a little blacker dot. Unless your just a huge fan of a celeb who sends autopen or sec signatures I say save the stamps. Most TTM sites like fanmail.biz and startiger.com can help inform you who really signs and who doesn't remember my first step is research. Now that's not saying its impossible to get an authentic autograph from someone who uses a secretary or autopen if you write sincere heartfelt letters sometimes you can get lucky. Now enough of these TTM bad words and on to the best part of the hobby the successes. This week brought a great reply from the very lovely Sandahl Bergman it was great to finally add Valeria to my Conan collection along with Arnold, James earl Jones, and Gerry Lopez and who doesn't love Sandahl as Queen Gedren in "Red Sonja" took three months to return. Thursday brought two, first Don Rickles signed the two pictures we sent him just under two months wait. One got smudged but the one I really wanted the "Kelly's Heroes" poster picture he signed in sharpie and not pen like the other and returned perfect. Next was Larry Zerner you may remember him as Shelly from "Friday the 13th" part 3. He brought the hockey mask to scare his friends and i think we all know how that turned out. Fast 8 day turnaround. Friday brought two more success first "Let's Make a Deal" creator and host Monty Hall signed and returned one of the two pictures we sent only took two weeks. Next Two time superbowl MVP and Champion Eli Manning returned the two cards we sent him signed and in only 26 days. To finish off an amazing week we got Commander Data himself Brent Spiner he's my favorite character from TNG he signed both pictures and took only a few months to reply. Well that's all for this week. Thanks for stopping by ill be back next Saturday with all new autographs and addresses and be sure to stop by Wednesday for the mid week bonus horror blog. Until then. Keep graphing.

Sandahl Bergman

14315 Moorpark street

Sherman Oaks, CA 91423-2615

Don Rickles

10249 Century  Woods Dr

Los Angeles, CA 90067-6312

Larry Zerner

Zerner Law

1801 Century Park East

suite 2400

Los Angeles, CA 90067

 

Monty Hall

519 N. Arden Dr.

Beverly hills, CA 90210

Eli Manning

New York Giants

Giants Stadium

East Rutherford, NJ 07073

Brent Spiner

NSBN, LLC

9454 Wilshire Blvd

4th floor

Beverly Hills, CA 90212-2907

 

 

 

Cpt. Caveman's bonus IP autograph super short Marshall Tucker edition.

Hello and welcome to a special IP autograph bonus blog. Last Night I went to see The Marshall Tucker Band in concert. For those that don't know they started in 1972 as a southern rock band and has had several great hit songs over the years including"Can't You See", "Fire on the Mountain", (not the same as the Dead song by the same name) and "Heard it in a love song". It was a great show with lead signer Doug Gray putting on a great show in between red solo cups the band was spot on playing so many great songs and just jamming out. After the show I waited around the stage area asking the roadies about autographs and the stage manager guy said no problem go around and come back stage. I was excited it was just me and an older lady asking about autographs she wanted her shirt signed for her sick sister that couldn't make it to the show. On the way we ran into Chris Hicks the lead guitarist we talked to him then asked for an autograph which he was happy to oblige with but only had a regular pen so I gave him my gold sharpie to sign our pictures, that started about 20 people coming over for him to sign so I told him keep the sharpie I had another with me. He thanked me and the older lady and me headed towards the back gate to go back stage we were ready for some more autographs. Weeeeell we get to the gate and the state fair security who has nothing to do with the concert stopped us wanting to know where we were going. We explained to him the bands stage manager told us come back stage. Ok he said what's his name... Lol no clue both of us were so excited about going we never asked, after a few more minutes of the very rude man we decided go back up front to see if we could find the roadie, manager or anyone that could help us but even the guitarist was gone by then so that ended our graphing for the night we waited around as long as we could before we gave up and left. Oh well at least we got one autograph and tonight I got a guitar pick from the Three Doors Down concert to add to my pick collection no autographs at that concert just wasn't the opportunity I tried, anyways that's about it Thanks for stopping by and ill be back Saturday with new autographs and addresses and next Wednesday with a special mid week all horror edition until then keep graphing.

Chris Hicks (IP success)

The Marshall Tucker Band

 

(L to R) Chris Hicks and Doug Gray

 

Cpt. Caveman's Mid week bonus blog Music edition

Hello and welcome to the mid week bonus blog. This week's is an all music edition with some of our favorite musicians autographs and some tested addresses from the vault. Musicians or bands travel alot playing music all around the world with only limited down time before going back on tour or maby returning to the studio to work on a new album so they can be some of the hardest autographs to obtain. Some will sign if sent VV or via venue. Meaning if you research the current tour and find an address for the venue there playing at you can try to send your request's there instead of an agent or home address. Since there on the road so much this is the way to go sometimes. And for some the only way. The only problem with VV is you have to time your letter of request to arrive before they arrive at the venue I usually mail mine 5-7 days before the show date and its helped us to try to find a contact at the venue to send it to. You could try emailing someone at the venue to make sure they even pass mail along to the performers. Most will but some will not. We have also researched the bands head of security and sent our letters to the artist care of them at the venue address. We did that for the current Paul McCartney tour but got the same sorry he's no longer signing VV anymore letter that everyone else has received. If there not touring then I suggest you send to the record labels address or a home address if one can be found. So on to the autographs and addresses. These are a few of our favorites from our collection and the addresses we used. Enjoy and ill be back this weekend with new TTM successes from this week and next weeks mid week topic is Horror my favorite area of collecting. Until then happy graphing and keep writing those letters.

Ozzy Osbourne

c/o Regent House

1 Pratt Mews

London NW1 OAD

UK

Huey Lewis

p.o. Box 3649

San Rafael, CA 94912

Eric Singer

EDM Productions

11684 Ventura Blvd

suite 408

Studio City, CA 91604

 

Tommy Thayer

p.o. Box 7147

Thousand Oaks, CA 91359

Grace Slick

5956 Kanan Dume Rd.

Malibu, CA 90265

Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn Ranch

44 Hurricane Mills Rd.

Hurricane Mills, TN 37078

Robby Krieger

1801 Century Park east

Los Angeles, CA 90067

Sir George Martin

AIR Studios

Lyndhurst Hall

Lyndhurst Rd.

Hampstead

London NW3 5NG

UK

 

 

 

 

 

Cpt Caveman's bonus blog-Bellamy Brothers in person autographs

Hello and welcome to a Cpt. Caveman's special bonus In person autograph blog Bellamy Brothers edition. Tonight I went to see the Bellamy Brothers in concert at the WV state fair and after almost 40 years Howard and Dave Bellamy put on a great show. They started out in 1968. There crossover hit "Let Your Love Flow" gave them a #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976. Since then they have had 21 #1 songs on the country charts and have released over 50 albums. The show started and I was as close as I could gets about 2 feet from center stage. They played all there hit songs and some new ones off there newest album it was an amazing show. Howard tossed me a guitar pick I would have been happy with just that but after they finished playing I figured id try for an autograph so I called to Dave asking for an autograph he pointed to the merchandise trailer and told me they'll be there in a couple minutes to sign autographs. I didn't waste any time rushing over there and was second in line with my photo in hand. Good thing to because the line quickly grew to a hundred plus people. After a minute or two wait Dave and Howard rode up on a golf cart and came inside to start signing. They were super nice and took the time to talk to me during the signing. I took a few pictures and moved on so i wouldn't hold the line up It was a great night a great concert and a good graphing opportunity I will remember forever.

 

Ill be back Wednesday with my mid week post this week its a special music edition next Wednesday will be an all horror edition and every Saturday with the weeks new TTM autographs until then happy graphing everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cpt. Caveman's TTM Autograph Collecting #5

Hello and welcome back fellow TTM graphers. I hope everyone had a great week collecting autographs. This week brings sad new. Wednesday former President Jimmy Carter announced that he has cancer and it has spread he is changing his schedule to accommodate treatment. He's always been a great signer and he's always held a special spot in my heart for being my first President. Our prayers go out to him and his family. So this week I thought id share a little about myself and my autograph collecting and why I started this blog. I have been collecting autographs since 1986. I was a young boy and every year at our homecoming festival the Current and Former Miss WV winners came and signed autographs at the local football field that was my first IP autographs and there still in my collection to this day but I was hooked after that. We live in a rural area so unless we travel there's not many IP autographs to be obtained luckily we live right next to the state fair grounds and with the PGA tour and NFL training camps now just a few miles away that gives us the occasional chance to try for IP autographs. So how do you go about getting autographs when you never have a chance to meet anyone? We discovered fan mail to be the best option for us and now its a hobby and passion my daughter Winter and myself both share. Who wouldn't want there favorite movie star or athletes autograph. In some cases maby your interested in history through autograph collecting it has given us a chance to own little signed pieces of history through the signature's of the people who made it, there are still astronauts, presidents and political figures, military leaders, scientists, authors and people that will fill the history books of tomorrow living and signing autographs today. I started this blog due to the fact that when we started collecting TTM we had no clue what we needed to do. We wasted money, time and stamps learning what to do. I'm still learning every day and since another autograph collecting friend of mine Brent suggested I do a blog to help inform others how to get into this amazing hobby and share tips and info here it is. So there you go now every Wednesday and Saturday I will bring you authentic successes that we have received and the addresses we used to get them. I'm always here for anyone wanting more info or if you have any questions about TTM graphing feel free to contact me or leave a comment. I'm glad you stopped by and appreciate everyone who takes the time out of there busy day to check out my blog. Thank you. Now on to what you really came here for the autographs and addresses. Monday brought a success from funny man and Monty Python member Michael Palin we sent him our DVD cover from Monty python and The Holy Grail back in mid June and took just under two months to return. He even personalized it by writing "Ni!" above his name. Who doesn't love The Lumberjack Song. Next Thursday brought a super fast reply from author, screenwriter, director, and along with George Romero co created the original Night of the living dead. It took only 5 days to get our pictures back signed. Friday brought a very cool and fast 13 day reply from the oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. At 97 Mr. Bobby Doerr is also the only ball player that played in the 1930's that's still living. He spent his entire career as a second baseman for the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the HOF in 1986. That's it for this week. It was a slow TTM week for us but its not always about quantity but rather quality. Ill be back Wednesday with my mid week bonus blog, this week theme is music so make sure you stop by to see some of our favorite musicians autographs and more tested addresses from the vault. Until then happy graphing.

Michael Palin

MayDay Management

34 Tavistock Street

London, WC2E 7PB

UK

John Russo

216 Euclid ave.

Glassport, PA 15045-1331

Bobby Doerr

94449 Territorial Rd.

Junction City, OR 97448