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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on February 15, 2024 at 2:32pm

this one is not authentic, sorry

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Permalink Reply by Steve on February 15, 2024 at 8:25pm

The signature is no good.

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Permalink Reply by Karen Bishop on February 15, 2024 at 11:25pm

thank you Steve 

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Permalink Reply by Yony Mark on February 16, 2024 at 5:37am

Hi Karen,

I'm sorry to read that you've lost your husband.

Regarding the policing of autographs - Unfortunately the act of forging autographs is very common (or, was very common at least), so there are lots of forgeries of ultra-famous celebrities being sold out there in the secondary market. It's a bummer when you discover you had a fake, but it's not the end of the world... Mickey Mantle is the most forged celebrity ever (alongside The Beatles).

Sometimes people who sell this stuff don't even know what they're selling, really! Only yesterday I've found an eBay seller who is allegedly a toy store. He's selling mostly random toys and other knick-knacks, but he also has some autographs in stock, but almost all of them are cheap forgeries and he doesn't care about it...

The best you can do is just research and ask on this forum... in general I almost never buy any autographs from the secondary market. I stick only to buying directly from the artist.

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Permalink Reply by meggs on February 16, 2024 at 6:25am

Good points Mark...but unfortunately if you want an autograph of Mickey Mantle or the Beatles (or anyone deceased) you can forget about going directly through the artist.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on February 16, 2024 at 8:40am

I'd certainly be ruled out from collecting.  I'm glancing at the moment at some of my most prized autographs and am realizing that Macca may be the only one who is 'still with us'.

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Permalink Reply by Yony Mark on February 16, 2024 at 9:18am

I dunno, out of my 300+ autographs I only have 5 of people who passed away. So I guess it depends on what you're collecting.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on February 16, 2024 at 9:25am

Indeed. With Joyce Randolph gone now, the only persons alive in my screen/stage collection seems to be William Shatner and Ian McKellen. Most are gone for decades or more. Judy, Jackie, Joan, Bette, Gloria, Vivien, Laurence, Elizabeth, Richard, Orson, Bela...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on February 16, 2024 at 9:29am

Whoops - Michael Yorke, Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn, Werner Herzog, Martin Sheen...hmm.

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Permalink Reply by Garrett Meadows on February 16, 2024 at 5:24pm

This has nothing to do with the authenticity of the autograph, but just read an interesting biography of Dr. Max Jacobson, aka, Dr. Feelgood. He was quack doctor to politicians, movie stars, and athletes. His most notable "patient" was JFK who he regularly "shot up" with some sort of concoction that was basically pure methamphetamine. One of the careers he ruined by turning him into an addict was Mickey Mantle. Another notable career Jacobson ruined was Eddie Fisher. RFK begged his brother to distance himself from Jacobson who had already addicted JFK to his "pick me up" shots. 

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on February 16, 2024 at 5:29pm

I was in the audience of a live tv show where Eddie Fischer, who was so high he did not know how many children he had, started talking about Feelgood/Jacobson, JFK and... being in the Oval Office. A commercial was quickly cut to!

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Permalink Reply by Garrett Meadows on February 16, 2024 at 5:47pm

I'm glad that someone else knows about "Dr. Feelgood" and his insidious medical practices. Jacobson's patient list reads like a Who's Who of notable individuals. Believe it not, Jacobson didn't lose his license until 1978. It's no telling how many individuals he turned into addicts. 

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