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Dwight Eisenhower: Real or Secretarial?
I told a friend I would try to see if anyone here knew if these two Eisenhower signatures were real, secretarial or autopen. They were both the standard shot of Ike sitting sideways in his leather chair looking at the camera. Each is stamped with the photographer's name on the back and are considered authentic photographs from Ike's era. If anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated. I told him to scan big maybe it is too big! This is the first one.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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Can you show the entire items please?
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They certainly appear live ink.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on
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Hi Eric. He told me the black one is cut because apparently the photograph itself had stuck to the glass in a frame and tore off poor Ike's face. So, he made a cut of the signature. He was able to scan the bottom. He said both were stamped in purple on the backs they said the same thing.
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I do note these strokes - every one ends in a darker bit - cross-over is harder to see and it is not personalized as what I have seen. Others are and those are hand signed.
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The other shows very subtle signs of what may be an Autopen or the like. It doesn't look quite human either. And again, the lack of personalization.
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Thank you Eric really appreciate you looking at it. I wondered about secretarial or autopen. Frank said the cut one was from a defunct American Legion but he said that had a typed inscription and not hand signed. I believe he even had a secretary sign some of his letters "Grand Dad" to his grandchildren lol. At least I read that somewhere. He said they did not cost him much so he is not too disappointed.
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