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Permalink Reply by NotANurse on October 19, 2019 at 6:42am

Just ignore the 'David Bowie' written below, this isn't part of the item, thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 19, 2019 at 9:34am

No from me.

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Permalink Reply by NotANurse on October 19, 2019 at 9:52am

Thanks, dont suppose you could elaborate on what's wrong with it? Cheers 

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 19, 2019 at 10:03am

The numerals bother me.

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Permalink Reply by MarkG on October 20, 2019 at 3:33am

Eric is spot on.

The autograph has several giveaways - to give you a few pointers.

1. Bowie signed very very few 2009's - it was the height of his first wave of cancer, the ones he did sign were limited edition books and prints for friends only (ie Geoff MacCormack).

2. He had (with the rare exception) dropped writing the full 2000 in 20008 (ie only writing '08) 

3. As Eric says all the numerals are wrong both characteristically and size-wise.

It would fool quite a few as the main signature is not that bad but as Eric identified, it ain't real.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 20, 2019 at 3:56am

Hi Mark! :) Agreed, the main body of the graph is not bad, the forger is observant re form to to year (more or less) but makes errors as you mentioned re date etc and can not smoothly execute.

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Permalink Reply by NotANurse on October 20, 2019 at 5:48am

Thank you both, I did notice there weren't as many 09 samples to compare to, now I know why.

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