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Permalink Reply by Tiziano Vianello on July 27, 2018 at 5:11am

When you find it? Is not the first that i see it...

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Permalink Reply by Karsten on July 27, 2018 at 5:14am

Over 2 years ago. 

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Permalink Reply by Don Webster on July 27, 2018 at 8:41am

Karstren - the one thing that jumps right out at me is the fact that this "contract" is stamped C-O-P-Y in big bold letters at the top of the page.

So is it logical to assume this is a "carbon copy"?

Or one of a number of first generation "originals" of the same document?

Got to be one or the other...

We need more info my friend!!!  

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Permalink Reply by Tiziano Vianello on July 27, 2018 at 9:27am

Elvis in a great great problem in the autographs... I think that in some years also the original will become fake. Great deal Elvis! Ha ha... 

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Permalink Reply by Karsten on July 27, 2018 at 5:19pm

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Yes, this is a signed carbon copy of the document. Attached you can see the back of the document. Hope this will help you. 

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Permalink Reply by Karsten on July 28, 2018 at 2:15am

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Thanks Don for the info. It‘s an first generation carbon copy of the original. I can see it, because it‘s on the original official letterhead from Col. Parker‘s office. If you feel the paper you can feel the riffles from the Station Wagon in the picture and from the typing of thd Typingmachine, as well as the signatures -Elvis and Parker- on the backside of the carbon copy Contract. The original of this contract must be in the office of Graceland.   Attached some more much better pictures to see the details. 

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Permalink Reply by Tiziano Vianello on July 28, 2018 at 4:58am

For Rick Consola is ok this contract

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Permalink Reply by Karsten on July 28, 2018 at 5:42am

Tiziano thank you, did you ask Rich Consola?

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Permalink Reply by Tiziano Vianello on July 28, 2018 at 10:09am

Yes some time ago... 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 28, 2018 at 9:35am

BTW, Karsten, the "typingmachine" could be any old typewriter, manual, electric or IBM Selectric. They would just put a sheet of carbon paper under before each copy. 

This looks like an electric, standard or Selectric because the pressure looks so uniform. And it could be a third carbon copy because the copy under the original being typed is generally crisper.

Did Tom Parker's office keep the originals to most contracts?

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Permalink Reply by Larry Shockley on July 27, 2018 at 9:33am

Looks fishy to me... Like fresh new signatures on top of a multiple generation copy of a document. The compare the handwritten "1 copy sent to Michie" to the rest of the handwriting...

Looks fishy

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 28, 2018 at 5:33am

It's a live-signed carbon copy, which was common for agreements. Parties to a contract would sign a copy for each party, just like we do today.

"COPY" stamped at the top appears to be instructions added after the contract was signed for Parker's office to copy the agreement to microfilm or microfiche.

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