Mikhail Kalashnikov Autographs
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (UK: /kəˈlæʃnɪkɒf/ kə-LASH-nik-off, US: /-ˈlɑːʃ-/ -LAHSH-; Russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников, IPA: ; 10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013) was a Soviet and Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the RPK light machine gun and PK machine gun.
Kalashnikov was, according to himself, a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weaponry to design arms that achieved battlefield ubiquity. Even though Kalashnikov felt sorrow at the weapons' uncontrolled distribution, he took pride in his inventions and in their reputation for reliability, emphasizing that his rifle is "a weapon of defense" and "not a weapon for offense".
Kalashnikov was born in the village of Kurya, in present-day Altai Krai, Russia, as the seventeenth child of the 19 children of Aleksandra Frolovna Kalashnikova (née Kaverina) and Timofey Aleksandrovich Kalashnikov, who were peasants. In his youth, Mikhail suffered from various illnesses and was on the verge of death at age six. He was attracted to all kinds of machinery, but also wrote poetry, dreaming of becoming a poet. He later went on to write six books and continued to write poetry all of his life. In 1930, his father and most of his family had their properties confiscated and were deported as kulaks to the village of Nizhnyaya Mokhovaya, Tomsk Oblast. After deportation, his family had to combine farming with hunting, and thus Mikhail frequently used his father's rifle in his teens. Kalashnikov continued hunting into his 90s.
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Current items with a signature of Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Traded items with a signature of Mikhail Kalashnikov
The most expensive item with a signature of Mikhail Kalashnikov (Mikhail Kalashnikov Signed Book Autograph Signature Soviet inventor USSR AK-47) was sold in December 2022 for $999.00 while the cheapest item (Mikhail Kalashnikov genuine autographed photo) found a new owner for $0.99 in February 2017. The month with the most items sold (8) was April 2016 with an average selling price of $9.26 for an autographed item of Mikhail Kalashnikov. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2022 with $999.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $4.02 was November 2016. In average, an autographed item from Mikhail Kalashnikov is worth $19.75.
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| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Authentic Autograph of Mikhail Kalashnikov (with COA, rare book) | $599.90 |  |
| Authentic Autograph of Mikhail Kalashnikov (with COA, rare book) | $599.90 | |
| Authentic Autograph of Mikhail Kalashnikov (with COA, rare book) | $599.90 | |
| Authentic Autograph of Mikhail Kalashnikov on rare book (with COA) | $599.90 | |
| Authentic Autograph of Mikhail Kalashnikov on rare book (with COA) | $599.90 | |
| Authentic Autograph of Mikhail Kalashnikov on rare book (with COA) | $599.90 | |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov Signed Book Autograph Signature Soviet inventor USSR AK-47 | $999.00 | |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov Signed Book Autograph Signature Soviet inventor USSR AK-47 | $999.00 | |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov Signed Book Autograph Signature Soviet inventor USSR AK-47 | $999.00 | |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov Signed visit card Autograph Signature Soviet inventor AK-47 | $699.00 | |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov Signed visit card Autograph Signature Soviet inventor AK-47 | $699.00 | |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov Signed visit card Autograph Signature Soviet inventor AK-47 | $699.00 | |
| RARE! Signed by Mikhail KALASHNIKOV Autograph on his Book Memoirs Russian AK-47 | $299.90 | |
| RARE! Signed by Mikhail KALASHNIKOV Autograph on his Book Memoirs Russian AK-47 | $299.90 | |
| RARE! Signed by Mikhail KALASHNIKOV Autograph on his Book Memoirs Russian AK-47 | $299.90 | |
