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Harrison Ford Questionable Autographs
Some of you know me, and from what I understand, someone caught selling yet another bad Ford autograph has once again, decided to spout off at the mouth. Claims that I am a dealer and I only tell unsuspecting autograph buyers that their item is fake so that I can sell my own Harrison Fords. Again I am hearing claims that the likely supplier of the forgeries is the true expert on Harrison Ford autographs.
Side note the seller sent me a friend request message yesterday with the single question about if I knew a particular collector. In my world this says plenty, and likely tells me where the piece originated.
When I tell people that I track the sale of Harrison Ford autographs, I am not kidding around, I watch sales here, I watch sales on rebelscum and on ebay and other online auction sites.
Who signed them? Who is the forger? I am not going to play games and point fingers, nor will I even guess if the supplier is the forger, all I can do is put together where they came from.
I will give the people that have had these in their possession, that courtesy. They can come clean about where they got them as the "in-person" and "private signing" stories fall apart.
This is the same courtesy I tried to provide to Marc Moser, the last guy caught in a huge Ford Forgery mess. He decided to drag my name thru the mud for a few months as well, but by doing that he just shot himself in the foot. People will wake up sooner or later, and the truth does come out.
I present these images to you, again supplying the signatures and letting the people on this forum and others as judge, you decide the truth. You will also be the deciding factor if these autograph professionals keep their reputations or if they have earned brand new ones.
Every item below has been tracked to the most recent seller, and through his own admission the source of the autographs, I will also include items sold elsewhere by the supplier who admitted on these very pages to supplying some of these.
The pattern is pretty clear to me.
As for the recent claims about me being a dealer, out to only hurt other peoples supposedly reputable business.
Please keep in mind, that anyone that has purchased anything at all from me in the past 5 years has approached me. When they do I usually point them in other directions and offer to authenticate (for free) any item they ask about, from any other source.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Jones on
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Here's a better look at that Fisher.
I don't understand how this got through JSA if the Ford is so bad. Think it's just extremely rushed or a poor forgery? - Attachments: No photo uploads here
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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on
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It got thru JSA because they don't use the people with real knowledge of the autographs, they try to do it all in house, without contacting their "experts" and spending any extra money apparently.
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Hi Pete,
I think I have finally found a decent, legit Ford.
Sold by Corey Perry on Star Wars Autograph Universe.
What do you think?
Andy Luk has told me he likes it.
Thanks,
Ben
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Corey is a good guy, if he got it, it's fine.
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Permalink Reply by Bobby Kennedy Baron on
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Pete, how many vintage Ford signatures have you seen on 11"x14"s?
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I have seen a handful, but they are not at all common.
There are more vintage signed posters than 11x14s. Sure there are 11x14 Lobby Cards and things like that, but Ford's vintage signature was all but a memory by the 1990's.....sure he could give a really nice autograph after that time frame but it would have been for a friend or charity.
When you say vintage signatures I assume you are talking about full every letter autographs, for the usual collectors, that would be 1977 to the mid 1980's. Lucasfilm was always patrolling and sending cease & desist letters to Movie collectible shops & photo shops selling prints of copyrighted images. Licensed photos meant Lobby Cards, press stills and posters until the 1990s when Classico postcard company obtained the license. Getting a vintage Ford on an 11x14 meant getting a valuable Lobby Card signed.....something not many collectors were willing to do. The same way hardcore poster collectors don't get original posters signed.
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Yea, I was talking to Steve Grad the other day and he said he had only ever seen one 11"x14" Alec Guinness so I figured a vintage Harrison graph on one that size would be nearly as rare. That is exactly the time frame of his signature I was referring to. It's such a beauty, it's a shame he's dropped it.
I had no idea Lucasfilm was so strict about that sort of thing, but it makes sense. They were a merchandising juggernaut.
Why don't hardcore poster collectors get them signed, fear of damaging the value? The comic book store I manage had a couple of Amazing Fantasy 15s on consignment at the same time we were having Stan Lee sign some stuff and there was a great debate as to whether or not a modern Stan signature would increase or hurt their value.
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Die hard comic collectors see anything at all written on or in the book as damage. Vintage or Modern Stan signatures in any copy of AF15 will limit the number of interested buyers, to just people who collect autographs, or comic collectors who are ok with it being there.
Same book, same grade, one signed and one not.....the unsigned copy would likely bring a higher hammer price in a serious comic book auction.
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Yea that's what we ultimately did, especially since Stan's signature now is pretty unreliable. Now if it were a clean vintage signature of his from the 60's, that would be a different story.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on
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While I generally agree with Pete and the same can be said for vintage sports cards...
As background... I have collected comics for almost 40 years now and have a respectable Golden and Silver age collection.
My feeling is this... signature may hurt mid to high grade books. Don't get them signed.
But low grade beaters, I think the signature can "rehab" it a bit. A sig may likely add value to a 2.5 or below.
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Absolutely, but far less today, when compared to the 1990's.
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