Robert Maxwell Autographs
Ian Robert Maxwell (10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British-French media proprietor and politician.
Of Jewish descent, he escaped the Nazi occupation of his native Czechoslovakia and joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during the Second World War. He was decorated after active service in the British Army. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. After serving as a Labour member of Parliament from 1964 to 1970, Maxwell again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) and Macmillan Inc., among other publishing companies.
Maxwell led a flamboyant life, living in Headington Hill Hall in Oxford, from which he often flew in his helicopter, or sailed on his luxury yacht, Lady Ghislaine, named after his daughter Ghislaine. He was litigious and often embroiled in controversy. In 1989 he had to sell successful businesses, including Pergamon Press, to cover some of his debts. In 1991 his body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht. He was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem in a high-profile funeral attended by members of the Israeli political establishment, including Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, President Chaim Herzog, and dignitaries like Natan Sharansky.
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Traded items with a signature of Robert Maxwell
The most expensive item with a signature of Robert Maxwell (Y. V. Andropov, Writings, SIGNED by Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's dad, KGB Russia) was sold in September 2025 for $700.00 while the cheapest item (ROBERT MAXWELL SIGNED QUESTIONNAIRE MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT WORLD WAR 2 NAZI) found a new owner for $0.59 in August 2016. The month with the most items sold (6) was May 2026 with an average selling price of $62.14 for an autographed item of Robert Maxwell. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2025 with $700.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was February 2011. In average, an autographed item from Robert Maxwell is worth $8.61.
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