Autographs of Elephant Man

Current items with a signature of Elephant Man

These are the most current items with a signature of Elephant Man that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	Joseph The Life, Times and Places of the Elephant Man Signed First Edition	£99.99
	The Elephant Man A Study in Human Dignity Ashley Montagu SIGNED to Daughter	£63.34

Merrick was born in Leicester and began to develop abnormally before the age of five. His mother died when he was eleven, and his father soon remarried. Rejected by his father and stepmother, he left home and went to live with his uncle, Charles Merrick. In 1879, 17-year-old Merrick entered the Leicester Union Workhouse. In 1884, he contacted a showman named Sam Torr and proposed that he might be exhibited. Torr arranged for a group of men to manage Merrick, whom they named "the Elephant Man". After touring the East Midlands, Merrick travelled to London to be exhibited in a penny gaff shop rented by showman Tom Norman. The shop was visited by surgeon Frederick Treves, who invited Merrick to be physically examined. Merrick was displayed by Treves at a meeting of the Pathological Society of London in 1884, after which Norman's shop was closed by the police. Merrick then joined Sam Roper's circus and was toured in Europe.

In Belgium, Merrick was robbed by his road manager and abandoned in Brussels. He eventually made his way back to the London Hospital, where he was allowed to stay for the rest of his life. Treves visited him daily, and the pair developed a close friendship. Merrick also received visits from some of the wealthy ladies and gentlemen of London society, including Alexandra, Princess of Wales. Although the official cause of his death was asphyxia, Treves, who performed the postmortem, concluded that Merrick had died of a dislocated neck. Read even more about Elephant Man at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Elephant Man

The most expensive item with a signature of Elephant Man (David Bowie SIGNED AUTOGRAPH The Elephant Man 1980 AFTAL UACC RD) was sold in May 2020 for £476.00 while the cheapest item (Freddy Jones SIGNED photo - J38 - The Elephant Man) found a new owner for £0.01 in April 2018. The month with the most items sold (6) was July 2015 with an average selling price of £15.00 for an autographed item of Elephant Man. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2018 with £39.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was October 2015. In average, an autographed item from Elephant Man is worth £15.00.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Elephant Man were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	Actor FREDDIE JONES signed THE ELEPHANT MAN 8x10 photo IMAGE No2	£2.08
	Actor FREDDIE JONES signed THE ELEPHANT MAN 8x10 photo IMAGE No3	£1.75
	Actor Freddie Jones signed THE ELEPHANT MAN movie 8x10 photo	£1.49
	AUTOGRAPH Helen Ryan (The Elephant Man) Hand Signed 7x5 B&W Photograph	£5.55
	BRADLEY COOPER signed - autographed ticket THE ELEPHANT MAN	£7.95
	Gordon R Seward SIGNED (?) The Elephant Man Joseph Merrick Deformity Disease 1st	£19.99
	JOHN GIELGUD - Shakespeare - The Elephant Man - SIGNED CARD + PHOTO - AFTAL/UACC	£9.99
	John Hurt HAND SIGNED 8x10 Photo Autograph, The Elephant Man, Alien, Dr Who	£39.99
	Joseph: The Life of the Elephant Man by Joanne Vigor Mungovin Signed 1st Ed 2016	£20.00
	The Elephant Man! 8x10 movie photo signed by Freddie Jones IMAGE No2	£1.04