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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 8, 2014 at 12:23pm

I think it's likely genuine, too, but you REALLY need Roger on this one.

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Permalink Reply by Max Rickardsson on July 9, 2014 at 4:05am

With due all respect to William and Steve I´ll have to disagree.

It´s not authentic due to three reasons, one the "E" in Elvis is all wrong in height especially  the upper loop in "E" ,  second the part after "P" in Presley is all astray & finally the number "60" in brackets is a big give away and this one is a forgery done by german/dutch forger.

Bonus note that the distance between the "P" and resley part in Presley is too much

Not even worth asking Roger since it´s an obvious forgery IMO

Sorry if it´s a bit diffcult to understand the way I´ve written, english is not my native langauge so I tried my best to express my opinion in a proper manner.

Max

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 9, 2014 at 5:44am

You expressed yourself just fine, Max. I thought it might be a Hans Bakker, but there's something about this one that made me think it was just irregular. Why is the number a bug giveaway?

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on July 9, 2014 at 10:29am

Man.. that does look different..

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on July 9, 2014 at 10:47am

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on July 9, 2014 at 12:01pm

Since most of the German/Dutch forgeries have a date in quotes, the question is, did Elvis ever sign this way himself?  He must have gotten the idea from somehwere.  There are Elvis Collectible books where they show autographs like this.  I am wondering if they are forgeries also?

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Permalink Reply by Timothy on July 9, 2014 at 3:00pm

not authentic imo

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on July 9, 2014 at 3:18pm

+1

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Permalink Reply by Upside on February 3, 2015 at 2:41pm

Fake.  This is a Euro forgery of the 1990's.  Very common fake.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on February 3, 2015 at 4:49pm

So is this a fake or secretarial - I find a little bit of difference in the two.  I am thinking it more of a secretarial from his Germany. 

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Permalink Reply by Upside on February 4, 2015 at 1:40pm

Nope outright forgery.  This style of signature was produced in Europe in the 1990's.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on February 4, 2015 at 5:42am

I got burned with a very similar one actually sold thru R&R years ago.  When the forgeries by Hans? (forgot his name) were discovered by the autograph world, I returned the autograph and they reimbursed my money.  These autographs out of Europe fooled a lot of pros.  Obviously they are still being sold on the market.  Indeed the question is did Elvis ever date his signature.  Possibly he did at times.  As stated, the idea had to come from somewhere.

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