AUTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS COLLECTING

MY INTREST IS TO DEVELOP THE FIELD OF AUTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS COLLECTING IN KARNATAKA and INDIA.

Let us see,

What is an Autograph? A Autograph is a Signature written by a person/ personality.

What is a Document? When along with a Typed Letter/Hand written Letter/Order or any form of Text with signature is a called a "Document".

Why collect an Autograph?

An Autograph gives a chance to keep yourself a momento of a person.It may be your classmate,collegue or a friend whom you may never see again in your whole lifetime.

Collecting Autographs

Starting from what could seem to be a simple collecting takes a different dimension when you try to get a Autograph of a famous prominent living legend / personality. It becomes then on a challenge to collect Autograph of a famous prominent personality, but who is dead and cannot be contacted never again in this flow of Life!.

Greater Challenge

Next comes the greater challenge which is collecting Autographs of the most profound and powerful personalities of the World.

Like Kings, Queens, Emperors, Dictators, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Geniuses, Inventors, Scientists, Greatest Sports players, Music performers,Voyagers and Space farers..

A mighty challenge is "Documents Collecting"

The Mighty challenge there on is moving on to collecting "Documents" from the above mentioned categories of Personalities.

The Ultimate

Lastly the Ultimate Challenge would be collecting "Documents" in the from of Letters written and signed from famous to famous persons,Personel letters written from famous which sheds light upon their private life unknown to the world,Letters written at important stage of their carrier and at top of their tenure, concerning their work.Presidential Appointments and Military orders etc....These greatest and mega kind of Documents collecting is called "Historical Documents" Collection.

The five handwritten Notes pages that you are seeing above is the original handwriting, written by the Worlds Greatest Inventor THOMAS ALVA EDISON and Signed by Edison himself ! 88 Years back on December 23 1923!

From Private collection of Chethan.BR

AUTOGRAPH of KING KRISHNARAJA WADIYAR of MYSORE SIGNED IN ENGLISH ORIGINAL HALFTONE PHOTOGRAPH

AUTOGRAPHED / SIGNED IN ENGLISH ON THE RIGHT TO LOWER END OF PHOTO SIGNED ON THE MAT AS Krishna Raja Wadiyar.

ON TOP OF THE PHOTOGRAPH IS THE SILVER CREST ROYAL INSIGNIA {LANCHANA} OF THE MYSORE KINGDOM.

RARE HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT IN KANNADA WRITTEN BY KING KRISHNA RAJA WADIYAR

Original 'Rare Manuscript' in Kannada script handwritten by King Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV of Mysore in 1927 during his 25 Years of his Ascension to the Throne as King of Mysore Kingdom,On the bottom Signed in Kannada by him as 'Sri Krishna' to the right you can see the intact cross seal.On bottom of the Photograph to the right corner Krishna Raja Wadiyar has Signed in English as 'Krishna Raja'.

'Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV' is the most Important Wadiyar King of the Mysore kingdom.Shown here is the full view of the Rare Sri Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV. A sepia tone original period photograph,Silver crest royal insignia of the Mysore rulers on top of the Photograph,Original rare handwritten manuscript by Krishna Raja Wadiyar,His signature in Kannada on the bottom as 'Sri Krishna',Cross seal on to the right,His second signature below the photograph in English as 'Krishna Raja Wadiyar',On the back there is a Silver crest royal emblem of the Mysore kingdom unseen here.

From Private Collection of Chethan.BR