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Bruce Springsteen - real or fake?

Hi everyone!

Would appreciate your help with this Bruce Springsteen autograph. Do you think it's good or bad?

Thanks for helping!

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Permalink Reply by Mr. Steffman on March 23, 2017 at 2:04pm

It's a cool image.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Chase on March 23, 2017 at 6:30pm

Jan, did you read my last comment?

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 23, 2017 at 8:06pm

Try to get a good res flat scan.

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on March 23, 2017 at 8:11pm

Will try to do that, but it sells in 15h so it's not much time.

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on March 23, 2017 at 8:16pm

Also just found out that the pic is just 5,1x4,3 (13x11 cm) in size. Meaning the signature must be really small.

Don't know if that info adds something?

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 23, 2017 at 8:45pm

The signature has some strange qualities, and I just saw this as an 8x10 with a different signature but in the same place. The smaller version at 5x3 has a perfectly reduced signature so I am going with "preprint".

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on March 23, 2017 at 8:50pm

Your opinion is much appreciated Eric!

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Permalink Reply by Robert Chase on March 23, 2017 at 10:01pm

Eric, what do you think of the straight line in the B ? Put a straight edge on it and it lines up perfect, right to the loop where the ink is missing. Wouldn't be easy to do a straight line like that free hand. I was leaning towards preprint as well.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 23, 2017 at 10:05pm

Hi ROBERT (wrote RICHARD by mistake earlier),

When I said "signature", it was to avoid using the work "ink". Only having what is here to go by, I am thinking preprint. FWIW, I don't think that line is dead straight. Look at the "ink" in negative and over-contrasted - what do you see?

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Permalink Reply by Robert Chase on March 23, 2017 at 10:30pm

Eric, I enlarged the signature and laid a ruler along the line and it looked straight. it seems to line up with the ink missing on loop. Maybe I'm just looking into it to much. Do you think the line in the B is typical?

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 23, 2017 at 10:36pm

Hi Robert,

To me it has the slightest curve and also varies in width a touch. I mean like .5% - very very slight. Fro the way the signature has been reduced perfectly from the 8x10 version I saw, with a different sig but in the same exact place, I have to conclude this 3x5 is some sort of preprint from the little data at hand. And the "ink" looks rather strange, no? Not jagged like an Autopen but perhaps odd at the first stroke of the "S" and the last trail off the end.