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Marlene Dietrich…opinions…Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Josh Board on December 7, 2021 at 10:53pm

looks good to me

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on December 8, 2021 at 6:19am

Josh, Thanks for the look.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on December 8, 2021 at 1:21pm

David - As you know, Dietrich is tricky. Is that fountain pen ink? I'd also want to see some of those others with the typewritten notation at the top like the Sheridan that is peeking up under Dietrich to get a better sense of context.

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on December 8, 2021 at 2:07pm

Etienne, Eyes like a fox….no cuts so not a steel tip pen, old ink on old paper, no ink bleeding, smooth with no stops, up and down pen movements seem to be thicker than the thiner lateral movements, definitely not a stamp….fountain pen. This came out of a professional photographers collection who took photo's for Time, Life etc and collected their ink on cards with this format…..As for eyes like a fox, I posted the Sheridan on Dec 7th in the same category,…I will wait for you to catch up….HaHa

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on December 8, 2021 at 2:31pm

David- You certainly have some interesting sources of provenance on your pieces! I get what you're saying about the pen movements being thicker and thinner. One time I called an autograph real and not stamped just by a very faint and somewhat stray dotting of an "i".

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on December 8, 2021 at 3:10pm

Etienne, Thanks for sharing your knowledge…I try to share items from my own collection….Right or wrong I try to put my money where my mouth is……Today I trashed a Madonna autograph because a buyer of mine confirmed it was a crapper….Before I sent it to him I told him I needed confirmation it needed to be flushed…..and he did.,,,,flush….