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Howard Hughes Letter - Hand Signed?

I have this letter that Howard Hughes sent to a family friend after his Congressional hearing to thank him for his letter of support. I believe that the letter itself is authentic. However, I am not sure if the autograph is actually hand signed by Howard Hughes. Does anyone know if he used secretaries or autopens for correspondences like this? Any chance it's printed? In person, the ink appears to be darker than the ink of the actual typewriting.

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Permalink Reply by Edward Siebert on June 13, 2015 at 2:45pm

I'm not an expert on his sig, but it doesn't really match the uthentic examples I have seen.

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Permalink Reply by Arthur sommer on February 9, 2016 at 1:28pm

Actually I believe that it may be authentic, I have many signatures of Hughes and they do vary in style but many do break midway as this does. I'm attach one 1955 example

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Permalink Reply by Arthur sommer on February 9, 2016 at 1:36pm

Here's another

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Permalink Reply by Arthur sommer on February 9, 2016 at 1:39pm

Another

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Permalink Reply by sling on February 9, 2016 at 2:13pm

Coincidently I am just watch a movie starring Richard Gere called the Hoax-about Clifford Irving forging Howard Hughes documents, letters, etc. Make sure you don't have some of those forgeries!

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Permalink Reply by Arthur sommer on February 9, 2016 at 6:30pm

Actually they all came from Irving, Irving trust at 1 wall st. NY. When Irving trust was taken over by the bank of NY in 1988 they cleared the building for the bank NY but left all there obsolete and inactive accounts for bank NY to deal with. When they came into the building they hired a carting company to clear out the files in the vault. One of the drivers for the carting company dumping paper at the recycler saw stock stamps and stock certs in the load he just dumped and started picking them out and saw they came out of a brown tied up file box. Seeing two other file boxes he grabbed them and threw them in his truck.
That should have bee the end of the story but after he got home he went through the boxes took out any stocks and stamps ect. And the rest was "a bunch of paper". He threw the boxes of paper in his garage and put the other stuff in a draw. 25 years later he bought a new house and was moving so he threw the 2 boxes out with all the other trash and put the stuff in the draw out in a yard sale with everything else. I was looking at the stuff he had out and some TWA and RKO annual reports from the 50's and noticed it was all stamped Irving trust with a file number and one said Howard Hughes file. I asked about the stuff and was told the story, I pointed out it said Howard Hughes and he replied I'm sure there's more then 1 Howard Hughes out their. I said more then one Howard Hughes getting annual reports from TWA and RKO?
He didn't seem to know what I was saying but replied that he threw the 2 boxes of papers they came out of to the curb with everything else if there still there I could have them, there might be something in there that would prove the stuff belonged to Hughes. Well I bought the stuff and saw the 2 boxes and grabbed them. Thrown out twice at this point the boxes were full of paper from to or about Hughes and his finances in relation to Irving trust including loans and agreements signed by Hughes to finance controlling interest in TWA. Loans signed by Hughes to buy controlling interest in atlas. Loans to Hughes to controll RKO then loans to RKO then a 36 million dollar loan to pay previous loans and buy RKO including the "bill of sale" for RKO. Papers for the sale of RKO by Hughes. agreement, bill of sale and loan to buy the rights to the films Jet pilot and the conqueror staring john Wayne. A thousand or so papers, 25 contracts signed by Hughes many cosigned by Noah Dietrich, Nadine Henley, and tom slack with some as many as 13 cosigners and multiple seals. If he wasn't losing it by the late 50s there would have been many more but by 58 everything was handled and signed by his lawyers cook and slack, cook even signed Howard Hughes on contracts after 58 and wrote attorney in fact under it about 20 of these only the power of attorney contracts have Hughes signature after 58 and one docket signature from his office in vagas 59.
I've sold a few items but have been holding on to bulk of them but May eventually consign to an auction or sell piece by piece not sure yet. Would be happy to show images to any one interested. Back to you original comment, authenticity is unquestionable.