[btcarfagno]

I have recently bought several autograph albums and multi signed "scraps" and am wondering what the best way to handle them is for turn around sale. I have a few questions regarding this, again keeping in mind my goal of making them as marketable as possible.

1. If the cut is alone on an album page, should I keep the entire page intact?

2. Do I try to mount the cuts onto anything, such as an unlined index card, using archival glue or should I leave the cut as is and allow the eventual buyer to mount as desired?

3. Are there times to leave a group of signatures on a page together, such as when they bleed into one another or have a common theme together such as a group of 3 Yankees versus 3 individual Yankees?

4. What is the best way to handle the "front/back" signed album page situation?

5. Are there times when leaving the entire page intact would make it more valuable (I have a Jackie Robionson/Branch Rickey/Harold Parrott sheet that I am not going to break apart...but are there other reasons such as "too much bleeding into the other autographs" to keep the entire sheet together)?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Tom C