BACKGROUND

• Worked undercover, and served as expert witness, for law enforcement sting operations exposing forgers

• Appeared as a regular guest for a weekly radio talk show on autograph collecting

• Appeared as an autograph expert for a television series on collectibles

• Licensed autographed appraiser

• Lectured extensively, around the United States, giving educational courses on autograph collecting for members of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club (U.A.C.C.), and the International Autograph Collectors Club and Dealer Alliance (IACC/DA)

• Co-Creator of the International Autograph Collectors Club and Dealer Alliance

• Creator and promoter of the International Autograph Fair and Sale Extravaganzas

• Author of over 100 autograph related articles published in all major trade journals

• Author of Collecting Books and Pamphlets signed by the Presidents of the U.S. (1982)

• Former director of the U.A.C.C. (1980-1984) and (1996-1997)

• First Place Winner of the U.A.C.C. Sixth Annual H. Roger Phillips Memorial Award

• Voted by members of CompuServe as 1994 Philographer of the Year

• Listed in the 1993 and 1994 editions of Guinness Book of World Records

• Listed and published in Ripley's Believe It or Not