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1950's Elvis Presley autograph authentic??

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on April 25, 2017 at 5:54pm

I haven't spent much time on Elvis' signature. That said, I'm surprised too. I wasn't expecting it to come back as authentic.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on April 25, 2017 at 7:21pm

Same here.. at first glance I was not liking it, because of the Merry Christmas. The more I look just the Yours Elvis Presley. I was liking it. I was going either way on this one.

This looks to be signed on a generic RCA 45 sleeve. I am assuming there is a curve in the at the top. I cannot seem to find which one this would have come from.

Regardless very very cool piece!

Mark

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Permalink Reply by Robert Chase on April 25, 2017 at 7:26pm

This looks to be a section of a 78rpm sleeve for a 10 inch record,50's paper style with no artists name,just the RCA name. You could find and Elvis 78 stored in one of these sleeves.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 25, 2017 at 9:16pm

Good conversation to follow - thank you gents.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 25, 2017 at 10:42pm

I wonder why the other side wasn't signed? It would be plain brown/off white, not full of red printing and more receptive to ink, no? Just wondering aloud.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 26, 2017 at 1:11am

If that's a record sleeve, it was most likely signed with record in it or at least the sleeve intact.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on April 26, 2017 at 3:15am

And then someone decided to haphazardly cut the signature from the sleeve using a crooked scissor cut on 3 sides and a manual tear on the right.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Chase on April 26, 2017 at 5:29am

I have been looking at crazy cuts like this for over 30 years. I think they started to tear it by hand and then realized I better get scissors. Just guessing.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Chase on April 26, 2017 at 6:17am

At this point, I feel that Don could help with some of those forgery examples he mentioned early on in this discussion. He raised a red flag and no one is talking about that. We need to compare the different examples.

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Permalink Reply by JAKE JONES on April 26, 2017 at 8:40am

Apparently it was from a RCA 45 rpm sleeve that was damaged and the owner ripped it or cut it down to use it as a cut for framing with a photo. The item measures 2x3 inches in size.