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I am frequently asked how many Doctor Who autographs I have or how large is the collection, so thought a separate post would be useful, and a chance to ramble on a Friday morning in an effort to wake myself up. Coffee alone is not working this morning. 🙂
To start with, my site does have two pages for Doctor Who autographs, but I have never had the time to scan everything, or list everything, so the pages are incomplete. The Classic Doctor Who page is missing tons of entries, but here are direct links where you can see what is up there so far -
http://www.cyshp.co.uk/dwmain.htm
http://www.cyshp.co.uk/dwnewmain.htm
A lot of memorabilia I had from my youth was stolen when the lockup my dad used for storage while our house was being rebuilt in 1980 was broken into. I did not start collecting Doctor Who autographs again until 1999 when i met Colin Baker at a Collector's Show held at Watford Leisure Centre. One of the nicest people you could meet. I collected a lot after that.
Our house move sale in 2007 decimated our autograph collection, and as part of that, I sold over 500 custom 8x5 Doctor Who cards that had been autographed (at least one card for every Doctor Who story every broadcast - many cards for some), my autographed Doctor Who DVD collection (every release to that point), plus a few multi-signed items. I did keep all of my letters, record cards and photos that I had autographed by Doctor Who people, plus my treasured autograph book from 1978/1979.
The autograph book. This was autographed by several stars and people behind the scenes at the 1978 and 1979 Doctor Who Appreciation Society Panopticon conventions in London. I was only 12 in 1978, so big eyed at meeting my on screen heroes. 🙂 Sadly, despite surviving the theft of most of my memorabilia, it later got chewed by one of our dogs at the time. I was able to save most of the book, but some pages were lost forever. I does however contain two Docs - Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, several companions (inc. Ian Marter and Nicholas Courtney who are no longer with us), and behind the scenes people (inc. Doug Adams of Hitchhikers fame and producer Graham Williams, both who are also sadly no longer with us). I love this book for sentimental reasons, and it remains a treasured possession. Here's the Jon Pertwee sig (you can see canine teeth marks in the top right corner :-)) -
It's a lovely example of his signature, and useful for comparison as there have been some bad fakes out there taking advantage of the many loops and swirls in the sig which some people find hard to distinguish.
Anyway, moving on - when the show relaunched in 2005, as well as sending out the 8x5 cards which were sold in 2007, I dabbled with some A4 landscape photos during that first new season - at least one for each episode. I really liked them, but stopped doing them as they were ink hungry at a time when I could not afford to replace the ink cartridges so frequently. You can pick cartridges up quite cheap nowadays if you shop around. Some are brilliant and include an early undedicated David Tennant from the regeneration scene, and early John Barrowman sigs before his sig deteriorated so drastically to the horrible form it now takes. When he first started signing he had a beautiful signature. Also, unusually, everyone who signed used the white space I provided, so all the sigs are clear.
ROSE
THE END OF THE WORLD
THE UNQUIET UNDEAD
ALIENS OF LONDON
WORLD WAR III
DALEK
THE LONG GAME
FATHER'S DAY
THE EMPTY CHILD
THE DOCTOR DANCES
BOOM TOWN
BAD WOLF
THE PARTING OF WAYS
When I sold the 8x5 cards and dvds in 2007 which had been my main forms of collecting Doctor Who autographs, I stopped for a while. It was not until towards the end of David Tennant's time, I started dabbling with 4x6 photos, and then went into full swing when Matt Smith's Doctor started.
I am normally a fussy collector, and like collections or groups to be themed and on the same formats. This has ended up being an exception. Having sold a lot, got so many different formats, and so many cast members passed away, it is not possible to do that, so I am happy to collect Doctor Who autographs on any format.
I probably missed some interetsing bits, but hopefully this will give you a better idea of my Doctor Who autograph collecting. On my second coffee now, and almost awake. 🙂
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