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    Sir John A. rakes in the cash.

    Sir John A. MacDonald (1815-1891), Canada's first Prime Minister had his signature sell on Ebay for $7850.

    I wonder how much Hamish's signature would sell for on X Marks?

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    I'd buy Hamish's signature for the price of a good Scotch...but only if I was there to join him in one myself!

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    I've never understood relics, particularly of the autograph kind. Okay, so that paper was graced by the pen held in the hand of the actual man (or woman), but so what? Does it tell us anything about the signer? Does it impart some deep wisdom, or keep us warm at night? Not really, no.

    So I'd have to say that "a plug nickle" is about all you'd get from me for one.

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    Trust Sir John A. to be bringing in a bit o' th' filthy lucre over a century post mortem. That's going a little beyond the Scottish virtue of "thrift."
    EPITAPH: Decades from now, no one will know what my bank balance looked like, it won't matter to anyone what kind of car I drove, nor will anyone care what sort of house I lived in. But the world will be a different place, because I did something so mind bafflingly eccentric that my ruins have become a tourist attraction.

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    Phil is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    Well if it wa on a cheque made out to me for a few thousand........

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