Bing Crosby--real, secretarial, or fake?

Thanks in advance for your input!

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on April 26, 2021 at 10:04am

Baseguru, In my humble opinion your 2 examples were signed by a secretary…..A very good secretary who used a lot of Bing's signing characteristics.

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Permalink Reply by Baseguru on April 26, 2021 at 10:11am

Thanks for the thoughts David. I'm having a tough time with this one. Many of the secretarial signings just don't look like this. If it is secretarial, it's a good one.

Hoping some others will chime in.

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Permalink Reply by Baseguru on April 28, 2021 at 5:59pm

Any other input? Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Mupplvr on April 29, 2021 at 8:56pm

How about my 2 Bings - thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on April 30, 2021 at 5:02pm

Mupplvr, I have nothing to say about you first example, other than I would not buy that for my collection, signed with a crayon??. Your second pink page example from what I can see looks like old ink on old paper on ALL writing. I like the descending B to g in Bing and the C dropping down to the r in Crosby….In my humble opinion …..real.

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Permalink Reply by Mupplvr on April 30, 2021 at 9:22pm

The first one is a very old album page, written with a brownish color fountain pen ink, not a crayon

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on May 1, 2021 at 4:19am

Mupplvr, Your first example is trying to look like a war date and later Crosby….for fountain pen it looks flat and lifeless as opposed to this earlier pre war fountain pen example. In my humble opinion.