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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
The first one doesn't check out. It's junk. The bottom one, purportedly signed in Beverly Hills looks like a good sign. Matches very well with some of the signatures on the first page of this thread in fact.
Here's one just listed on eBay. It's a Char. Or an Eiffel tower Char as you call them, DB. It looks like a forgery. A Char/Chall hybrid to me.
Given the amount of PSA authenticated Chall's on eBay at lower prices, people are aware they're secretarial and still trying to dump them. Unfortunately, a lot of UACC registered dealers and members are still selling Challs. Even ones whom Bob Shinn mentioned notifying earlier on in this thread. Even ones who originally took down their Challs.
It's sad this PSA authenticated secretarial sold on a best offer for $70 shipped.
Particularly when authentic Alaska signed pictures are only $36 with a make an offer option.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Charlton-Heston-autograph-8x10-photo-ALASKA...
I have a feeling these would sell pretty quick if the sellers added "signed" to the title and maybe put some on regular 7 day listings.
I bought 15 of these after Zipper's study was posted here. How these are still in stock and for such an amazing price is beyond me :(
Just to follow on silverscreensignatures
Zip, don't know if this is one of my "eiffel tower" characters or the new forged R. I think the former but could be easily swayed to the later.
Brandon u might want to let Sipe know that this is not an authentic Heston and because GA certed it it's being touted as such. Bad feng shui! Don't know when they certed it but they should notify the seller.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Charlton-Heston-8x10-SIGNED-PHOTO-Autograph...
It's a forgery in my opinion. Silverscreensignatures has very few genuine pieces. GA rubber stamps a lot of bad items for this seller on eBay, just look at their other items.
Thanks for the notification!! I will forward this to Steve today.
Some days I just don't think the next one can outdo the last one. I am never ceased to be amazed...
Here we have a Kevin Martin PiecePast2 offering with a GAI cert. The write-up however says they never sell reprints...but what about secretarials?
WE NEVER SELL REPRINTS!!!
You are bidding on a hand-signed 8 X 10 photo of the Late Great CHARLTON HESTON in probably his Most remembered role as Moses from the 1956 Epic THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. It has been GAI Certified and issued number GV345294. "Global is approved by ebay as a third party authenticator". It is in wonderful condition and would make an excellent addition to any entertainment lover's Legends of Hollywood collection.
You are contacting a company that has been in business as a full time autograph dealer specializing in only entertainment for the last 28 years now, longer than ANY other dealer to specialize in this field.
Our CEO Kevin Martin has authored more books by more publishers than ANY other dealer or authenticator in this field, not to mention the over 400 articles published worldwide as well as the longest running column "Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries" for Autograph Collector Magazine. ( no longer in circulation )
The picture you posted which was listed by silverscreensignatures sold on a best offer for $70. That's a lot of money. Especially when a real signature on one of the Alaska pictures sold for $20. $70 is a lot for a forgery or anything from Charlton Heston. Prices should be higher but they aren't. Most likely partially because of all the secretarials out there.
That Moses with the Mike Baker cert is a horrible forgery of a secretarial. Just horrible. Where did you find that "gem"?
Right... with all the secretarials and now the emerging forgeries, the fair market value of a real Heston is completely diluted. It should be at least $50 for a real one.
In my UACC Ethics role I have been contacting UACC members and advising them of the secretarial, etc. It's like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Exhausting and frustrating.
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