Re: How much is this worth?

SG wrote:
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SG wrote:
How much do you think this is worth on a collectors market?

Keep reading and don't get turned away by the first parts, or just skip to and start reading about half way down:

http://turn-lane.blogspot.com/2008/12/pearce-goes-extra-mile-for-charity.html


Relevant portion follows:

I left that up to the reader, it's also relevant why he started doing it and the charity it's for.


Fair enough but many people won't on principle follow links.


"Last year, Pearce decided to go global. His 2008 project was a helmet signed by every living driver who'd won a Formula 1 world driving championship.

He got Phil Hill in late 2007 before Hill passed away. There were 18 other names to get -- then 19 after Lewis Hamilton won his first title in 2008.

So Pearce went to eight countries. He made five trips to Europe. He went to Brazil. He took a ferry across the English Channel. He rode trains, buses and subways. He covered, a friend estimated, about 67,000 miles.

And he got every signature he needed, closing the deal by going to London late in the year to get Hamilton and then going down to Brazil to get Nelson Piquet.

I asked Al the other day if it wouldn't have been cheaper for him to forget about getting the signatures and just give all the money he spent trying to get them to the camp. That depends, he said, on how much he can get for the helmet. But he reckons that through his careful planning and economic travels -- "You'd be surprised at how many places you can find a McDonald's or a Burger King to eat at," he said -- he spent only around $5,000 to complete the project.

Pearce doesn't know yet how he'll sell the F1. He might give it to the camp and let them see what they can get, or he might put in an online auction himself. It seems to me that he could find a bunch of potential customers at the Rolex 24 at Daytona next month. If somebody comes up with an offer that feels like a home run, Pearce might just sell it on the spot.

All Pearce wants to do is get as much money as he can for the helmet, and he doesn't keep a dime.

How much is one single helmet with autographs of 20 world driving champions on it worth?

Well, I don't have a clue. But you have to wonder if there's another item of any kind like it anywhere in the world. It's hard to do better than one-of-a-kind."
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