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STUDY: Jerry Lee Lewis - TTM real or not real

Steve asked me to start a new thread since some were having a lot of issues with regards to whether or not the through the mail autographs of Jerry Lee Lewis are real or not. I will post some examples of what we have been getting recently and some know in person examples. These TTM signatures are not cheap. You have to pay $50 for them to his box office box. The question is are they real or not. Roger has said that he has never seen Mr. Lewis sign this way and it looks to perfect - like a woman's signature.

Please post your thoughts here and examples.

thanks

Mark

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on October 8, 2015 at 6:06pm

I'm sorry, you must have been there when he typed that email. My mistake dag gummit!

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Permalink Reply by Henry K on October 8, 2015 at 6:23pm

Whitten is actually the one who took my cd (and a large framed item from a young woman - may have been a painting) backstage before JLL's February 2010 show at BB King's in NYC. I posted this one earlier in the thread, but here is what I got back...

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on October 8, 2015 at 6:36pm

absolutely real

Did he have a British accent mate?

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Permalink Reply by Henry K on October 8, 2015 at 6:43pm

Thanks! No British accent, Whitten was as Southern as they come.

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Permalink Reply by Chad B on October 8, 2015 at 7:42pm

Welcome Back, Roger. You always keep it interesting.

The Henry K example looks very similar to one I received ttm with the photo from the signing. Very nice. I think this is a valuable example as it shows a unique dot to the "i," has the killer inscription and a bit of an underline.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on October 9, 2015 at 5:24am

This is the last IP I ever got from JLL (I have 3). Bank on this as being 100% real. I witnessed it. Where in the world is this similar to the books? The 'L's to me are totally different from the books BTW, all my IPs are similar to this. Im only posting this to help people not to argue.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on October 9, 2015 at 11:23am

Here are some examples for the group - all were signed by Jerry Lee Lewis in 1966. The Sun Poster - I am not sure what date that was signed. Notice the "J" always loops up and through. The "Y" is not looped but always connected to the L in Lee.

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on October 9, 2015 at 3:20pm

That is true unless you send them up with Whitten, the "J" will most likely not loop through and the "y" will not have a loop. He changed his "y" a bit since the 60's. Some people believe in ghosts and UFO's too.

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Permalink Reply by Null on October 9, 2015 at 2:01pm

Here are a couple interesting things I found while digging around online (and if these have been posted before, please forgive me, I didn't want to click through 75 pages to find out):

This is from October 2014, on a TTM thread after Jerry had raised his TTM fee to $100:

"I remember the first feedback saying that he was asking for $$
note said Killer fallen on hard times.
one of the most recent had his price at $60,NOW $100
i HAVE SEEN SOME RECENT IN PERSON GRAPHS FROM HIM
a little messy !!
the ones coming back from his address look like his graph from 40 years ago????
find this all very puzzling and leave me afraid of getting burned!!
possible autopen???wife signing??? stamp???"

This is from a forum on www.jerry-lee-lewis.com, April 2014:

"Personally I would never ever trust an autograph from anyone unless I saw the person sign it. Certainly both J.W. Whitten and Kerrie have signed things on his behalf before. "

Same thread:
"In 1983 at a show in Moncton, New Brunswick, I gave J.W. an 8x10 of Jerry to get Jerry's autograph. He took it into the dressing room and I waited about 20 minutes. He came back with the photo and gave it to me. It contained a scribbled mark that a 2-year-old could have made. It was not Jerry's signature, as I had several earlier autographs by him. I never liked that son-of-a-bitch Whitten since."

Same forum, a 2009 thread (Interesting that this stuff goes WAY back):

"Also, Kerrie admitted to me that most of the signed JLL photos that came via her were fakes.."

"Since Jerry's hands tremble quite a bit these days there is a good chance you will see it in his handwriting. The last genuine autograph I saw of him looked as if it was written by a 7-year old."

"Are you sure you got a real Jerry-Lee-autograph? Most of the autographs are written by J.W. Whitten himself!:

"if J.W. Whitten got you an autograph then it's almost certainly J.W. Whitten's signature..."

There are also several examples of "stamps" people received:

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on October 9, 2015 at 2:38pm

thanks for contributing Ryan. Gee, and I thought the doubters were limited to just us AML folks!

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on October 9, 2015 at 3:27pm

Agree - thanks Ryan.

Mark

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on October 9, 2015 at 4:13pm

Funny stuff, Ryan. I know that they’ve sold stamped signatures that were represented as being exactly that - stamped signatures. Are you claiming otherwise?