Buster Keaton - real or not?

Here's a Buster Keaton signed album page that a dealer has up right now. How does this look? It's c.1932 and includes the signature names of Keaton's actor pals at the time...Lew Cody and Ralph Bellamy. The references seem to be made to a land yacht that Keaton and Cody owned together that was christened the "S.S. Damifino" (also the name of the boat in Keaton's silent "The Navigator".  If real, the name of the boat would also have been in Keaton's hand.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on February 7, 2021 at 10:23pm

Got to be "right" surely? Without even looking at other exemplars I couldn't see this as being secretarial or a fake given the whole look of the piece. Are you sure that the name of the ship is in Keaton's hand and not Cody's?

Permalink Reply by eddy on February 7, 2021 at 10:50pm

Thanks for looking. The name of the ship is in Keaton's hand, if real. The placement kind of throws you off a bit. I thought it was Cody's also. Here's another example I found, rooting around in a Bing search:

Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on February 7, 2021 at 11:05pm

The placement is indeed odd but it has to be real. I have a Keaton but a much later one so I don't think it helps much here. 

Permalink Reply by David Lewis on February 8, 2021 at 7:41am

Etienne, In my humble opinion, all 3 signatures look right. Bellamy's autograph dates to the beginning of his career, and Cody died in 1934.

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