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By Dukat (Andreas Rheinländer)
 - Gamma Quadrant
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1E European Continental Quarter-Finalist 2023
1E German National Runner-Up 2024
#595321
Hi guys,

weird question …
I have a baseball signed by Avery Brooks. It must be 25 years old. I do not even know when exactly I got the item.

At some point in the beginning of the internet and the rising online shopping opportunities, I saw this thing, but could not afford it. My parents offered to buy it and give it to me as a gift later on. It was forgotten for many years and I got it around 2005ish or something. I really do not remember the exact year.

It has been on my shelf ever since.

It is a standard-sized regulard American baseball with Avery Brooks’s (NOT 'Captain Sisko'!) signature. (The baseball is in perfect condition. The signature itself is bit 'worn down'. The ink isn’t as sharp and intense as it used to be.)

I have not seen anything like this anywhere on the internet.

I do not intend to sell it, but I would still like a kind of guess on its value.


Any ideas on its value?


(I did not make pictures, because I do not want pictures of an item that is obviously quite unique to be floating on the internet.)
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By Maelwys (Chris Lobban)
 - Gamma Quadrant
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Maybe not entirely unique, there've been at least three of them sold on eBay, at least as far as a quick search turns up:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ ... l-hallmark
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ ... d-baseball
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ ... 1947174855

Maybe get a trial membership to that site, and I think it'll show you how much each of those auctions closed for (I tried looking straight through eBay itself, but it looks like those were all old enough that they don't appear on that site anymore).
At a guess, I'd say it's worth as much as you're willing to accept to part with it and somebody else is willing to pay for it, as most things are. ;-) Most Trek celebrity autographs are around $50, but since he hasn't been on the convention circuit in about 10 years AFAIK, I'm sure his is worth more now because it's a lot harder to get for a diehard collector. So maybe $100-$200 to the right person? But really hard to say, because I know that I'd never pay that much for it (I consider autographs more about the experience of meeting the person than the momento I have afterwards; the momento is only worth as much as the memory, and so I'll never buy an autograph for a person I haven't met)
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