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Permalink Reply by goodcat on March 1, 2018 at 5:22pm

Not authentic  IMO

As Tim stated, there is a good study of MM signatures in the MM forum

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on March 1, 2018 at 5:49pm

I'm with you. Lots of quirks, most of which I've never seen before in any MM signatures, from the beginning to the end of her career. There was a period where her signature could be characterized as erratic, but common features were still evident. I see a paucity of commonalities here, in relation to other MM sigs of all periods. Also worth noting is that there seems to be pressure changes in the signing. Ranging from, in musical terms, piano to forte. Typically, her handwriting is light and airy, like a gentle breeze is blowing the implement across the medium.

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Permalink Reply by goodcat on March 1, 2018 at 5:57pm

Light and airy is a great description of her hand.

This one has too much wrong with it

I hope the buyer can get a refund

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on March 1, 2018 at 10:06pm

To be honest I think I'd save the authentication fee  unless you need a negative response to get a refund from the auctioneer. I am 99.9% certain that this is some kind of deliberate fake.  I say fake rather than secretarial because considerable effort seems to have been put in to making it look real (e.g. the lettering in the inscription) and I've seen other dubious signatures on this lovely Beaton photograph before. 

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