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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
Steve....
Outstanding Detective work on your part.
BTW did you notice the signature at the end of the page on his personal note to his friends?
Looks like an authentic Heston signature to me, how about you...
Thanks, but it wasn't outstanding detective work. I just blew up her signature in Photoshop so I could read it and googled her last name with Heston's.
The first listing was the link I uploaded and the second was her Facebook page...if it's her, and I think it is.
Bob,
It's too small for me to see clearly, but I doubt he signed it. It looks smooth and polished, but the letter talks about neurological damage from Alzheimer's. It looks like the 'r' is there, but by then he probably wasn't signing anything himself. Otherwise it seems to resemble the suspected secretarials.
The letter is from when he was first diagnosed in 2002. He was still signing at that point and even appeared at a NRA convention the following year I believe.
Reagan signed for several years after he was diagnosed.
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