I have a rifle of someone famous (in the gun world), but I could never bring myself to ask him what amounted to... "Could you write me a letter so when you die my gun will be worth more?"
I always ask for a letter to go with the rifle if I purchased the rifle directly from the famous person. No disrespect intended, but if you don't get around to asking while they're alive and retaining some degree of mental acuity its pretty damned hard to ask for a letter when they're senile or dead.
