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I don’t know how other collectors see this but for me the ’father and son’ signatures makes always a unique feeling to obtain. Possessing the authentic signatures in one collection from Bush 41 and Bush 43, Maurice and Jean-Michel Jarre, Kirk and Michael Douglas, Keke and Nico Rosberg etc., has always something warm, familiar feeling addition. I tell you the story about a Hungarian couple like this. One of the most famous Hungarian person from the 20th Century is Ernő Rubik Jr. His invention, the Rubik’s Cube is a well known playing tool around the world since 1975. Rubik, the architect nowadays lives and works in Budapest, Hungary, but his signature is one of the rarest in all collections. He never takes part any public event, even the Rubik’s Cube World Championship was held without his assistance. A few years ago I have called ont he phone his office, asking for sing my book, which is written by him about the Rubik’s Cube and issued around the early 80ies. His secretary told that she will ask Mr. Rubik, but gives me no hope at all, though Mr. Rubik never signs anything. I told that I have one of the largest collections in Hungary, I have his father’s genuine signature too, but useless. Two days later I called her again and she told Mr. Rubik don’t want to sign. Another story about his signing habits: there was an international conference in Budapest, I think the only one in the last twenty years where Mr. Rubik took part and gave a lecture. My friend went there for an autograph in-person, and Mr. Rubik didn’t want to sign again. My friend told him that he came from Paris to meet Mr. Rubik and this was the reason why he signed one autograph for him. Nobody knows why he is so serious and closed about autograph collectors and public events. My Rubik signature (see the picture) was bought from an auction, this is the only item I have seen in the last ten years.
Mr. Rubik’s father, Ernő Rubik Sr. was also a famous Hungarian architect, an aviator. During the 1930s, he designed several gliders for manufacture by the sport flying association of the Budapest Technical University. In the years following the Second World War, these designs were followed by a number of powered aircraft, making Rubik Sr. the country's most prolific aircraft designer. He was a kind man, this signature attached is signed by him in 1996, a few month before his death in 1997.
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