eBay : Rare Match Game autographed by entire cast/panel

[tvwxman]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/198059954106

Autographs on 2nd edition of game including Gene Rayburn, Johnny Olsen, Betty White, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg, Marcia Wallace.

Rayburn's autograph lists 8/75.

[rstrata]

….wow.  That’s the most impressive thing I’ve seen in a while.

…….if only I had more money in the fun budget right now.

[Robert Hutchinson]

Rayburn dating it certainly suggests that it was a contestant's parting gift ("you can tell your great-grandchildren you got this for playing Match Game"), but of course it isn't proof.

[pds319]

This is really a fantastic piece!

[carlisle96]

Rayburn dating it certainly suggests that it was a contestant's parting gift ("you can tell your great-grandchildren you got this for playing Match Game"), but of course it isn't proof.

I'm curious when the autographs were collected. It must have been during more than one taping session because traditionally, Betty White, Marcia Wallace, and Fannie Flagg wouldn't have been on the panel at the same time. Maybe the game belonged to someone in the audience who brought it more than once.

[calliaume]

I'm curious when the autographs were collected. It must have been during more than one taping session because traditionally, Betty White, Marcia Wallace, and Fannie Flagg wouldn't have been on the panel at the same time. Maybe the game belonged to someone in the audience who brought it more than once.

Depending on how you feel about the veracity of this site, it would have had to have been at least three taping sessions (or the original owner got some of the signatures separately). Betty and Fannie both did tapings in August 1975, but Marcia didn't have any bookings on MG between March and December of that year.

https://markgoodson.fandom.com/wiki/Match_Game/Episode_Guide

Just a warning that in the sports memorabilia business, a fair number of the signed items are not legitimate -- to the point where until you have a certificate of authenticity, a lot of resellers won't have anything to do with them. (That's how I got a "signed" Magic Johnson card from a disgusted coworker; I also have a nearly-one-of-a-kind Shaquille O'Neal signed press sheet that I probably can't resell for what it's actually worth.)

Matt O.: when was the second edition of the Match Game '7X home game released?

[Matt Ottinger]

Matt O.: when was the second edition of the Match Game '7X home game released?

It's in the Milton Bradley 1975 catalog, and there are newspaper ads for it by September.  Likely it had just been released, or maybe they were giving the game to contestants before it hit stores?  Odd that I don't recall home game plugs for Match Game, but I may just not be remembering correctly.

[carlisle96]

I'm curious when the autographs were collected. It must have been during more than one taping session because traditionally, Betty White, Marcia Wallace, and Fannie Flagg wouldn't have been on the panel at the same time. Maybe the game belonged to someone in the audience who brought it more than once.

Depending on how you feel about the veracity of this site, it would have had to have been at least three taping sessions (or the original owner got some of the signatures separately). Betty and Fannie both did tapings in August 1975, but Marcia didn't have any bookings on MG between March and December of that year.

https://markgoodson.fandom.com/wiki/Match_Game/Episode_Guide

Just a warning that in the sports memorabilia business, a fair number of the signed items are not legitimate -- to the point where until you have a certificate of authenticity, a lot of resellers won't have anything to do with them. (That's how I got a "signed" Magic Johnson card from a disgusted coworker; I also have a nearly-one-of-a-kind Shaquille O'Neal signed press sheet that I probably can't resell for what it's actually worth.)

Matt O.: when was the second edition of the Match Game '7X home game released?

I've bought stuff on EBay but have never bought anything autographed for that very reason, even from someone with a 100% rating.

[MikeK]

Just a warning that in the sports memorabilia business, a fair number of the signed items are not legitimate -- to the point where until you have a certificate of authenticity, a lot of resellers won't have anything to do with them. (That's how I got a "signed" Magic Johnson card from a disgusted coworker; I also have a nearly-one-of-a-kind Shaquille O'Neal signed press sheet that I probably can't resell for what it's actually worth.)

It's work but you can get autographs authenticated at a cost.  (I am sure Curt knows this.)

I have over 2000 trading cards signed in-person from the last 35 decades.  There is a market out there without authentication.  (Sorry, I am not spending money to verify my 30-year-old Martin Müürsepp card is legitimately signed.  I only got the best back in the day.)