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Permalink Reply by Dan Gregory on February 22, 2015 at 11:59am

The 8x10's I believe were sent out by his record company and all signed by a secretary 

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Permalink Reply by Adam Halloran on February 22, 2015 at 12:04pm

That is what I was going to say, Roger has one on his site that he has deemed to be authentic however. It does look different from the secretary signed images. 

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Permalink Reply by Dan Gregory on February 22, 2015 at 12:25pm

I've seen a couple of real ones signed by Eric Clapton. One was on eBay last year and went for around $350 but there don't seem to be a lot of real ones

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Permalink Reply by N.Steiger on February 22, 2015 at 3:33pm

Are you talking about the real TTM ones?

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Permalink Reply by N.Steiger on February 22, 2015 at 3:29pm

I agree and disagree. He did have a secretary sign some but some were also real. The "real" secretarial signatures had the proper British number formation because his secretary was also British. The rest as I have posted here do not match her hand writing and it does not make sense that over the date range of the apparent signatures that she or he would flip flop between American and British numerical handwriting. Here is one I know was from the mail showing the correct hand writing at least. The rest, as I have show, are American forgeries from forgers who are dumb enough to think the British secretarial versions were real.

Here is the secretarial.... with proper British hand writing. The rest are all forgeries.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Gregory on February 22, 2015 at 5:04pm

I agree that many forgers have copied the secretarial ones for years and at one point a lot of eBay was flooded with the fakes. I have seen a couple of genuine ones signed by EC himself on promotional photos. I don't know if these were signed TTM or in person

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Permalink Reply by N.Steiger on February 22, 2015 at 5:34pm

Ya, there were real TTM's for sure

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Permalink Reply by Dylan Tantelli on June 23, 2015 at 3:05pm

Do you think this one is real? 

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Permalink Reply by N.Steiger on February 22, 2015 at 3:37pm

I also want to add that I know most seasoned people here know that Eric sent out many ghost signed items. What I wanted to point out is that forgers copied his secretarial for some time and now there are so many, a lot of people actually think they are real. Even top authenticators. This is just a reminder.

However the one the Adam pointed out on Epperson site is a real one.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Halloran on February 22, 2015 at 3:51pm

Keep up the good work N. , anytime someone shines a light on the differences between authentic, secretarial, and forged signatures it is beneficial! I was looking at a lot of different "Clapton's" (quation for real and forged) recently and there is for sure a ton of fakes out there. 

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Permalink Reply by Paul on February 22, 2015 at 3:54pm

The Stiegs authentication service. Great stuff.

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Permalink Reply by N.Steiger on February 22, 2015 at 5:38pm

I would never want the job. I have the benefit of context. Roger Epperson just has the signature and nothing else 99% of the time. I just wish given this that PSA and Rog would be willing to give them a refund and just admit something is "un-determinable". I feel that that there is a huge gray area here with the sharpie age.

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