You could have taken the $20,000 and bought an autographed Ruth/Gehrig ball. I just don't get it on any level.
And if for some reason your dream was to have a George Washington autograph, you could have bought this nice piece (rather than a cut up piece of crap) and had money left over to go to Hawaii for a few weeks.
http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/...nked-envelope/