A rediscovered letter, an overlooked figure, and one of those full-circle moments that brings it all together.
Within our office walls have passed handwritten letters, documents, autographs, and artifacts related to almost every famous figure you can think of. Having dealt in the world of rare autographs and artifacts for well over two decades, we have truly seen it all.
With that said, it’s not always the high-profile names that catch my interest. Oftentimes it’s the obscure names we may not be familiar with, ones we discover within an archive while doing research. Names that are, many times, lost to history but shouldn’t be.
Since this Substack project is new, it’s hard to know where to kick it off. We’re organizing the publication into a number of sections that represent the various creative and historical endeavors that make up our days. This will be the first article we publish in Custodians of History. Not because it’s the most iconic piece we handle, it’s not. As a matter of fact, there’s a John F. Kennedy piece of great importance sitting on my desk right next to this letter. But this is where we’re starting. Everything has to start somewhere, and most things don’t start grand.
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