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Neil Armstrong autopen?

I was wondering on if this is a autopen or real? I cant find any preprints who match perfectly.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on October 4, 2018 at 9:51am

Yes, Autopen.

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Permalink Reply by Lars Olav Karlsen on October 4, 2018 at 1:46pm

Thanks, do you have a photo of another autopen like this?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on October 4, 2018 at 1:59pm

Yes.

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Permalink Reply by Lars Olav Karlsen on October 4, 2018 at 2:22pm

Could you post a link? Sorry for asking so much, but it would be much more convincing for my friend that owns this if I could show him a match.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Booth on October 4, 2018 at 11:33am

I have an authentic signed NASA litho photo signed if interested?

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Permalink Reply by Lars Olav Karlsen on October 4, 2018 at 1:47pm

Thanks, but I already have one myself - I just wanted to help a friend to identify if this was real or not :)

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 4, 2018 at 2:10pm

It is (the OP) template #5 or so. Steve knows much more - and to him a I defer.

Here is a link to a site with Armstrong Autopens:

Armstrong Autopens

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Permalink Reply by Lars Olav Karlsen on October 4, 2018 at 2:21pm

Thanks - I have seen that link but cant find it on that site. There are diffrences on those and this one.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 4, 2018 at 2:51pm

1) Steve is the - he is tops.

2) Autopen signatures are signed by a machine using any pen you wish - a machine that can be "nudged" while in operation to make even more subtle "differences". Some "might" be stamps of the same "signature" - that is a question for Steve.

3) Any mistakes are my own.

Here is the signature you question with an overlay of the Autopen template. This is very rough:

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 4, 2018 at 3:03pm

PS - Terms need defining. A "preprint" should indeed be exactly the same as the "signature" is in the photo - part of the negative/picture. An Autopen, sometimes also identical, can be made to have variations as here - the nudging I mentioned earlier. The template used is created using a genuine example (or examples, hence 5, 5A etc) of the signature and then the Autpoen does its mechanical work - sometimes with a little help.