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Authenticity is Everything
Harrison Ford Questionable Autographs
Some of you know me, and from what I understand, someone caught selling yet another bad Ford autograph has once again, decided to spout off at the mouth. Claims that I am a dealer and I only tell unsuspecting autograph buyers that their item is fake so that I can sell my own Harrison Fords. Again I am hearing claims that the likely supplier of the forgeries is the true expert on Harrison Ford autographs.
Side note the seller sent me a friend request message yesterday with the single question about if I knew a particular collector. In my world this says plenty, and likely tells me where the piece originated.
When I tell people that I track the sale of Harrison Ford autographs, I am not kidding around, I watch sales here, I watch sales on rebelscum and on ebay and other online auction sites.
Who signed them? Who is the forger? I am not going to play games and point fingers, nor will I even guess if the supplier is the forger, all I can do is put together where they came from.
I will give the people that have had these in their possession, that courtesy. They can come clean about where they got them as the "in-person" and "private signing" stories fall apart.
This is the same courtesy I tried to provide to Marc Moser, the last guy caught in a huge Ford Forgery mess. He decided to drag my name thru the mud for a few months as well, but by doing that he just shot himself in the foot. People will wake up sooner or later, and the truth does come out.
I present these images to you, again supplying the signatures and letting the people on this forum and others as judge, you decide the truth. You will also be the deciding factor if these autograph professionals keep their reputations or if they have earned brand new ones.
Every item below has been tracked to the most recent seller, and through his own admission the source of the autographs, I will also include items sold elsewhere by the supplier who admitted on these very pages to supplying some of these.
The pattern is pretty clear to me.
As for the recent claims about me being a dealer, out to only hurt other peoples supposedly reputable business.
Please keep in mind, that anyone that has purchased anything at all from me in the past 5 years has approached me. When they do I usually point them in other directions and offer to authenticate (for free) any item they ask about, from any other source.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Herrmann on
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AWESOME!! Man, if you want to sell
That please let me know. I've been trying to find one from that era forever!
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Permalink Reply by Bobby Kennedy Baron on
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Thanks, Pete! I knew there was a stamp or preprint of this floating around so I was just wary of that.
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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on
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These are the stamped pieces...
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Good to know, thanks for the heads up.
Did he ever use auto-pen or was it mostly pre-prints and stamps? Also, do you have any idea how common his TTM stuff was back then and around what time he stopped doing it altogether? I assume he hasn't signed anything from the mail in decades.
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Autograph collecting wasn't the industry it is today back in the late 70's early 80's even into the early 90's. Harrison signed TTM in 1977 and part of 1978, by the time Star Wars really took off some secretarial stuff was sent out and then nothing, by 1980 he had the small 5x7 ESB shots and a handful were hand signed with the vast majority stamps. 1981-1985 small Indy shots were around, very few hand signed and thousands of preprints. Starting around Temple of Doom 1984-1985 just about everything was preprints and that continues to today. There are certainly exceptions and certain fan letters have received hand signed responses thru the years, right up to earlier this year. I suppose it is all about the letter content and if he feels like it...
I think the people that have had success TTM with him in recent years have had a combination of things going for them, a really good letter that tickles his fancy in someway, and if they sent the correct postage and return envelope along with something decent for him to sign.
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Man, that's cool. I had no idea he's still doing it, even rarely. A guy at that level certainly doesn't have to.
Now if only he'd ever do a send in!
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Permalink Reply by Hugh Costra on
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Hi, what do you think of this one ? (Signed in 2011 at the Morning Glory premiere in Berlin)
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I believe that it is likely real, but there is not a single thing there to say it was signed by Harrison Ford. I have posted here and elsewhere that some Harrison Ford graphs should never ever be authenticated, and some just cant be verified. This piece falls into this category. People who obtain a Ford like this inperson should be happy that they had a chance to meet him, and remain just as happy to keep the item. Anyone attempting to sell this piece will forever have a hard time doing so.
Looking at this piece in a vacuum.....without any knowledge of who got it or where, there is no way that any authenticator should ever be able to sticker this piece.
All that being said in the last 20+ years this a is a pretty common form of Harrison's scribble while in a crowd.....just because I can identify it, doesn't mean that the normal "across the board" authenticator can or should.
You can certainly imagine how much easier this form would be for a forger to bang out.
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I understand, thank you Pete !
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What do you guys think of this one?
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Permalink Reply by Bradford on
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This CA autograph that is verified/witnesses by CGC is definitely similar to the ones that CA has used in the past yet many have determined to be forgeries. It even looks close to the one you posted of Andy's (with Daisy), Mike, and yet so many of them have been called into question. Am I the only one that think they all look like this example?
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