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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on July 23, 2017 at 8:08pm

Let's go after the low-hanging fruit first. Every verifiable Liston that I have ever seen had a fully formed "o" between the t and the n. This is written "Listen", that 5th letter a completely different formation than should be typically expected.

The C's from the Clay signature are the tell. No need to even progress to the rest of the ink.

So no.  Passing on this would be what I would do for what that's worth.

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Permalink Reply by David S on July 23, 2017 at 8:28pm

I'm gonna say no good. First, it looks like the 'o' in Liston is an 'e' as Woody mentioned above. Second, it doesn't look like any authentic examples i've seen. From my understanding, he was illiterate and his autograph was not neat.

Here is an example of a JSA authenticated Liston autograph that I used to own (sold a few years ago)

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on July 23, 2017 at 8:37pm

Textbook example. Good choice to illustrate. :)

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