A person should avoid all individual eccentricities and oddities in stamping, such as facsimile autographs, etc.
"The Book of Good Manners"
W. C. Green
He was an inveterate autograph-hunter, and toward the close of his life he paid the penalty of harping on the joys of the collector by the receipt of a perfect avalanche of requests for autographs and extracts from his poems in his own handwriting.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
The oldest wines date back to 1884, the oldest brandy to 1811. Its gallery of celebrities contains over 2,000 autographs and pictures of distinguished visitors.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett