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Taylor Swift?

Ok, I've been doing this for 7 or 8 years now, but until today, I never had a signature that I actually really wondered about until today (it's always been either definitely authentic, definitely not, or I was just happy to get something). Now, I'm still kind of happy to just have something, but at the same time, I'm really curious.

It came TTM, btw.

I spent a little time analyzing it myself, but my results were inconclusive, so I figured I'd toss it to the experts.

Here's what I figured out so far:

1) The personalization is sec
2) The heart on the personalization does not match the one on the signature, so if the signature is sec, there were two secs working on it
3) Pretty much every signature on Google, etc. have the heart going from thin to fat (unlike mine which does the opposite), though there are PSA certified examples that do what mine does
4) Other TTM examples of this photo exist, and mine doesn't match any of those (the hearts are different, my "loop" at the beginning of her signature has a slight point at the top, and the writing does not connect to it in the middle, as some of theirs seem to), though I don't have the eye to tell if it's a PP by analyzing the ink

Taylor isn't known to sign TTM anymore, so.. What do you guys think?

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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson on May 5, 2012 at 4:53pm

imo it isn't real based on what you explaned above. I think if she did sign a rare one through the mail. then it would be a nicer more conistent sig and wouldn't pass to a sec then to her. just my thoughts id recommend sending to her VV then you would have a better shot at getting one abit more solid i know i got snooki from jersey shore and thought the same thing that a sec did the personilization but she signed it. turned out to just be a sec.

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Permalink Reply by Mike White on May 5, 2012 at 5:35pm

Well, my first thought was sec or PP, but it's very obviously personalized by a different sec at a different time than the one that would have signed it, so that struck me as odd, as it's not something that I've really seen done. It does also bear strong resemblances to Taylor's signature, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but if anything, one would think that the sec would learn Taylor's signature as it is on the material being sold through her website, as opposed to this variation of the signature.

In regards to PP, others are getting the same photo bearing a signature, though there are the differences as pointed out above.

In terms of writing to her VV, Taylor hasn't gotten her mail in a year or two (I heard something about it being related to a stalker problem). Instead, she's been sending out PP letters personalized by a sec (the same one that personalized my photo) through both venue and management.

So, I'm now leaning towards sec (which I find odd for the reasons outlined above) or presigned authentic (which I also find quite odd).

To be extremely honest, I find it extremely odd that my request yielded this photo in the first place, so nothing would surprise me.. It could be a preprint of a sec autopen and I wouldn't be more surprised than I was to receive it..