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Hi:
At Steve Cyrkin's invitation, I'd like to call your attention to a signature study I've posted on my blog, Charlton Heston signature study by Steve Zarelli.
I believe I have identified the "tell" in Charlton Heston secretarial signatures, and if I am correct, the news is not good for most collectors. It appears that most Heston signed photos are secretarially signed.
Here is a synopsis:
The Theory
Photographs and other memorabilia sent to Mr. Heston's office were signed by a secretary. However, Mr. Heston did authentically sign books through-the-mail.
Real vs. Secretary
In authentic signatures, the R in "Charlton" is distinctly a lowercase "r" and less than half the height of the L. The first four letters are clearly "Char."
In secretarial signatures, the R looks much more like a lowercase "l" and is about the same height as the L. So, the first four letters appear to be "Chall."
I have attached two images to give you a small sampling.
For more details and images, please visit my blog at the link below.
I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this. I fully anticipate some resistance to the theory, because denial is always the first step. In fact, I would love to be proved wrong, because that would mean I wasn't sitting on a bunch of secretary signed photos!
By way of introduction, I have been collecting since the early 90s and I am the UACC Ethics Director.
I look forward to the discussion.
Regards,
Steve Zarelli
Tags: Charlton, Forgery, Heston, Secretary, authenticating, autograph, secretarial
Mike S. many thanks for sharing your stories and all the images.
This should now convince also the last skeptics !
Mike Sibley - thanks so much for presenting all your autographed photos and memories. This confirms for me my own findings (I got 3 in-person "Char" autographs and 7 TTM "Chall's" ) -- and there is NO DOUBT IN MY MIND whatsoever now about the fakeness of the secretarial "Chall" signatures.
Whatever one's beliefs may be here, one thing is fairly safe -- if you wish to buy an "authentic" Heston signature, go for a "Char" and avoid any "Chall" autographs like the plague!
Here is a Charlton Heston signature on a Ten Commandments screenplay that is being offer for sale.
Any expert opinions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Good advice, Mike.
J, whether it's an actual working script or a reproduction would make a big difference.
Well, with great interest have i followed the last few weeks comments re Heston and like all who have follwed or made comments are a firm believer in the 'ar' over the 'all' - would appear to be fairly obvious and the comments have led me to Rolfs site re Lewis and Martin and now i have a better idea re those two so i would like to thanks all who have contributed to the discussion and made me ( and i am sure) a few others slightly more enlightened re heston and maybe some others
Can such other studies be conducted and if so on such a site as this or can i be pointed in the right direction for existing signature studies?
Have included a couple of heston that maybe people could comment on as i am unsure of the authenticiity
Thanks to all
Dear Grant Davis. At www.isitreal.com more than 1000 "offical forgeries" like pre-prints, Autopens and sercretarial signatures are already published. Please take a look.
Of course we are looking for any further references and findings and will be glad to publish them with your reference which could be a good advertisment as well....
Please help the autograph communicate and share knowledge !
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