Autographs of Bob Monkhouse
Robert Alan Monkhouse (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English comedian, television presenter, writer and actor. He was the host of television game shows including The Golden Shot, Celebrity Squares, Family Fortunes and Wipeout.
Monkhouse was born on 1 June 1928 at 168 Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent, the son of chartered accountant Wilfred Adrian Monkhouse (1894–1957) and Dorothy Muriel Monkhouse (née Hansard, 1895–1971). Monkhouse had an elder brother, John, who was born in 1922. Monkhouse's grandfather, John Monkhouse (1862–1938), was a prosperous Methodist businessman who co-founded Monk and Glass, which made custard powder and jelly. In a 2015 documentary, it was revealed that Monkhouse and his older brother suffered from physical and verbal abuse by their mother.
Monkhouse was educated at Goring Hall School in Worthing, Sussex, and Dulwich College in south London, from which he was expelled for climbing the clock tower. While still at school, Monkhouse wrote for The Beano and The Dandy and drew for other comics including Hotspur, Wizard and Adventure. He established a comics writing and art partnership with Dulwich schoolmate Denis Gifford and the two formed their own publishing company, Streamline, in the early 1950s. Among other writing, Monkhouse wrote more than 100 Harlem Hotspots erotic novelettes.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Bob Monkhouse (Selection of Original Bob Monkhouse Signed Cartoon Artwork Drawings from 1974) was sold in July 2013 for £750.00 while the cheapest item (Bob Monkhouse signed Leaflet From Charity Event) found a new owner for £0.99 in December 2023. The month with the most items sold (8) was August 2020 with an average selling price of £8.47 for an autographed item of Bob Monkhouse. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2020 with £40.66 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £1.09 was February 2013. In average, an autographed item from Bob Monkhouse is worth £9.50.
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