Nonetheless, he has asked to meet with Harbaugh and exchange an autographed book for a jersey.

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To some, an autographed baseball sitting on a mantle is a priceless heirloom that will never be parted with.

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Synaptics keeps in a drawer a stack of autographed Faggin photos that it sends out to engineering fans who write in.

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Even though one of the walls of the Madison Avenue store is hung with photographs of famous perfumers he's worked with the same way a restaurant or deli might display 8-by-10 autographed glossies of movie stars he counts only one man who actually possessed a supernatural sense of smell.

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Next time the bartered item may be a championship ring, a jersey, a helmet, or maybe autographed shoes.

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Kurlander still keeps a copy of the script, autographed by Harbaugh, at his home in Pittsburgh.

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The significance of this event could have been captured with a photograph or even an inscription on the autographed item.

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He won an autographed copy of the book "iWoz" for submitting a video of himself imitating Wozniak's dance moves to VoteWoz.com.

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The auction featured more than 200 pieces of pop memorabilia, including an autographed letter sent by John Lennon to an Indian fan and a stage suit worn by Eric Clapton.

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Then, read some of my prior posts, learn that I hate news releases, engage me via Twitter about a topic, learn that I love bacon and mustaches, send me an autographed picture of Mr. T, and so on.

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