Investing in collectibles five to consider right now
• Th e value of Michael Jackson’s autograph has doubled since his death in 2009. • Th e 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic last year saw record breaking auction sales, including a menu from the last lunch eaten on board, which made £76,000.
• Anniversaries, deaths, and even shifts in public mood can heavily impact the value of high end collectibles. Which is why it’s important for investment-minded collectors to stay ahead of the market.
John F Kennedy
Buy before November 2013. Th at’s the advice many seasoned observers are proff ering when it comes to JFK memorabilia. Because November 22, 2013 will mark 50 years since Kennedy’s assassination. Th e anniversary will receive widespread global coverage, bringing an even greater number of people into the already heavily populated Kennedy memorabilia arena. Kennedy is America’s most popular ever
president, according to a 2011 CNN poll. Th is fact has been refl ected in historic auction fi gures. Kennedy’s signature rose in value by 12.4% per annum between 2000 and 2012, states the PFC40 Autograph Index, while his love letters to Gunilla von Post, with whom he had an aff air before and during his marriage to Jackie, auctioned for $115,537 in 2010. Items linked with his death have
proved especially sought after. Th e hearse that carried Kennedy’s body to Air Force One that day in Dallas sold for $176,000 in January 2012, while his last ever signature, given on the morning of his assassination, made $38,837 in 2009.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is the embodiment of a “living legend”. Voted the “Greatest Sportsperson of the Millennium” by the BBC, it is little surprise that his memorabilia can garner huge prices. Two pairs of Ali-worn gloves – one pair from his 1964 bout against Sonny Liston in which he won his fi rst heavyweight crown, the other from 1971, when he lost to Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the Century” – each sold for $385,848 in December – an auction record for boxing memorabilia. Yet in comparison his autograph looks
undervalued, with leading examples of a genuine Ali signature (not easy to fi nd) selling for as little as £1,200. In the decades to come, when he is no longer with us, the aura and mystique surrounding Ali will only increase – off ering terrifi c potential for his memorabilia, including his autograph, to rise in value.
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