Bill and Monica autograph card? Believe it

Posted Jan 28, 2012 by Bob D'Angelo

Updated Jan 28, 2012 at 06:59 PM

I received a few more photos from the upcoming 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW set that will be put out sometime next month by Famous Fabrics Ink, so I thought I would share them. If you recall, this set is limited to 240 boxes and will feature cut signatures of presidents, their spouses, their running mates and opponents.

The one subset that intrigued me was called Forever Linked. I mean, a Jimmy Carter-Anwar Sadat dual autograph card is amazing, although a tri-autograph with Menachem Begin, the third party in the 1979 Camp David Accords, would have been through the roof. But then I started thinking on the snarky side, figuring that Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky were “forever linked.”

Guess the folks at Famous Fabrics thought the same thing, as there will be a dual autograph (no dress swatches; after all, this is a set dealing with autographs) of Clinton and Lewinsky.

And taking it a step further, other Forever Linked cards will contain autographs of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and John Hinckley Jr., and Richard Nixon and Carl Bernstein. JFK and Marilyn made me smile; the Reagan/Hinckley combination made me cringe a little bit. I feel a bit squeamish about putting a premium on the autograph of a guy who tried to kill the president. My vote would have went for Sam Donaldson.

Although honestly, if there was a dual autograph card of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, that would appeal to me. I guess it’s because both parties are dead, or, more likely, it happened almost 147 years ago.

I had expressed a concern in my last post about the incorrect spelling of Dolley Madison (as “Dolly”) on one of the card images I saw. But apparently, as the image I am including shows, that error has been corrected. That’s good.

In addition to the presidential cut solo signatures that are in the set, some of the combos are really dynamite. There’s Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, John and Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Presidential opponent signatures include Kennedy and Nixon, Harry S Truman and Thomas Dewey, and William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan.

I love history, so seeing what is offered in this set is alternately exciting and frustrating. Exciting because of the slice of history it offers; frustrating because it is so limited.

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