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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 21, 2017 at 1:53pm

Appears the 8x10 sold by Sothebys with his 1987 gold Glass Spider tour costume but with slight variation - genuine:

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 21, 2017 at 2:33pm

If the image posted is a photo of a sharp 1st gen b/w photograph with the full margins as shown in my post it is a superb example.

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Permalink Reply by sellsberry on March 21, 2017 at 2:34pm

Thank You

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 21, 2017 at 11:39pm

Here is a rare 77 signature for comparison. The image is from The 1980 Floor Show. By the mid 80's he would be using the fully simplified looped style that continued on through the 90's. The exemplar below has the letters mostly connected - this would be seen about half the time and perhaps a bit less 1978-80 or so as shown below in select examples. By the mid 80's, and especially the 90's and beyond, the letters in "Bowie" were most always connected. Sometimes though, and early on, but clearly not always as the 1973 shows (hints of the simplified loop to come show here strongly), it is a skip, sometimes a jump - the "'10" below is actually connected again. Beneath that is the far more typical commonly seen simplified looped 1990's Bowie autograph which makes up the vast majority of his signatures - click for the full images:

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