The Authentic Experience
Unrecorded Harry Truman Secretarial Signatures
I recently purchased an entire archive of Secretary of the Treasury under Truman, John W. Snyder. Going through this archive has been enlightening on a number of levels. Illustrated here are some examples that will be valuable to Truman collectors and are published for the first time.
- March 3, 1939 Authentically signed by Truman as Senator
- May 2, 1940 proxy signed letter "Harry S. T. by BWT" unquestionably signed for the Senator by his wife and future first lady Bess Wallace Truman.
- May 18, 1944 proxy signed letter by unknown secretary. A convincing imitation that is quite different than the ones illustrated by Hamilton on page 541 of "American Autographs."
- April 19, 1948 Authentically signed letter as President
- Jan. 28, 1971 Authentically signed Bess Truman letter on HST stationary as former first lady.
- A comparison of the two authentic Trumans and the secretarial.
(Click images to enlarge.)
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Comment by john reznikoff on March 12, 2011 at 12:43pm -
Thanks steve
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Comment by Steve Cyrkin on March 12, 2011 at 10:20am -
Thanks for posting this, John. I added a comparison of the two authentics and the secretarial at the end.
If anyone else can find one of these, please post it.
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Comment by john reznikoff on March 12, 2011 at 8:10am
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Bill,
I have seen really good content WW2 content letters with similar proxy signatures. They are few and far between . I am amazed how much Truman actually signed during his career. It all goes down hill after him starting with Ike and JFK
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Comment by Bill Panagopulos on March 12, 2011 at 7:42am -
Pretty darn good imitation. Thanks for bringing it up, John.
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