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Another Babe Ruth Signed Photo

Spence authenticated but always feel more secure checking here first.

Looks ok to me but I would appreciate your thoughts.

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on July 22, 2018 at 11:21am

I'm looking, Steve. I get the same "I've seen this before" feeling like when I saw that "To Carlton, 'the door man'" Marilyn auto. That was in my saved exemplars and I had a good idea as to where to look for it, so came up with it quickly. This is a little trickier because my feeling is that I didn't save it, and it's a matter of searching internet images, if still available online. The spacing between the end tail of the 'e' and the start of the 'R', combined with the below baseline connector of the 't' and the 'h', which is not typically the norm within itself, the positioning and relative elevation/angles at the tail of the 'h' and the start of the t's backslash, it's fairly unique and I've seen it before, but not on a photo I'm sure. Will keep looking.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel S. on July 22, 2018 at 11:16am

Thanks Woody. I think that I am going to stay away from this one. Both love and hate the bold signature.....dan

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Permalink Reply by James on July 21, 2018 at 4:26pm

This is a case, imo, where it would be nice to have more handwriting in the Babe’s hand. An inscription, even personalized, would be nice. But everyone’s got their own opinion on that front.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 21, 2018 at 4:28pm

7-8 years ago Grad told me about a very good Ruth forgery called the "Boomerang B" that was getting past a lot of experts. He showed me examples but I don't have time to dig for them.

I think he said that they were discussed in one of PSA/DNA's authentication articles but I couldn't find it. Does anyone here know about them? If someone could ask on Net54 Baseball, that would be great.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel S. on July 21, 2018 at 5:14pm

Steve

I have always appreciated your integrity and commitment to “the right thing”. Thanks so much for all of your help

dan

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 22, 2018 at 11:31am

We're all happy to help here. Thanks for the kind words.

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Permalink Reply by James on July 22, 2018 at 2:55pm

Steve, if you could find more information about the “Boomerang B,” I'd love to read about it. I looked around a bit but haven’t found anything yet.

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Permalink Reply by BC on July 22, 2018 at 2:14pm

You probably wouldn't even need to look at the signature to see if it is authentic. Microscope the photo and see if the type of photo paper matches the age of the signature.There was a great post about someone doing that with Mantle stuff.