Al Franken Hand-drawn US Map with Autograph For Sale

Al Franken hand-drawn map of the continental US, with autograph and date. Franken has this quirky talent of being able to draw a map of the US from memory. You can find several examples of it on YouTube.

Now, the story on how I got this. 20 years ago, at a time between SNL and the Senate, he hosted a show on the now defunct Air America Network. He would occasionally play a game with listeners that I believe they called “Tell Me Lies.” The listener had to say whether a news story was true or not. I won the game on the anniversary show, or something special like that, and the prize was a hand-drawn map. I waited a long time for it, with several emails sent and no response. Finally, I got the address of the studio and sent them a letter. I received my original letter back with the map drawn on the bottom of my note, so I cut the top letter part off. The image is four and a half by eight and a half inches. It was handled roughly either by his staff or the USPS, and there are what appears to be coffee splatters on it. It was also folded originally (to fit inside an envelope) and the fold line goes through a little bit of Lake Superior.