Selling History? How WWII Signatures Became a Cash Grab
I promise this is the last video on autographs and signatures, but I recently bought a mostly lovely print of Frank Wootton's Typhoon Squadron, which had had all the signatures cut out of it. This led me down a rabbit hole of looking at the commoditisation of these signatures and autographs, where the very rarest are now sliced out and added to both new and old artwork, all in the name of "exclusivity". I mean, we look at a Rommel signature in this one...
Erasing History Part 1: https://pod.fo/e/4276b7
Erasing History Part 2 with Dr Philip W Blood: https://pod.fo/e/55f3cb
The HushKit Typhoon…
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