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Permalink Reply by Eddy on April 5, 2024 at 8:49am

I'd like to get more behind this but I'm not sure.  At first glance it looked good (even harder to see against the background).  

I helped a friend many moons ago with a Connery study he got into.  We both came to the conclusion that most of what has been on the market over the years is questionable (especially the Bond related material).

Here's one that I'd submit as a good baseline piece for this era: very natural and unpolished:

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Permalink Reply by banaguitar on April 5, 2024 at 9:05am

Thank you. The seller is in my opinion trustful. He told me that Connery signed this photo in-person in Austria 1987.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on April 5, 2024 at 9:02am

p.s.  Archived article found when I was digging in the past.....the title is instructive! :

 'Autographs? I don't get paid for them - so I don't sign them'... The obsession with money that haunts Sean Connery  By PAUL SCOTT FOR MAILONLINE

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1043417/Autographs-I-...

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Permalink Reply by banaguitar on April 5, 2024 at 9:22am

That's a very interesting article. Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on April 5, 2024 at 9:27am

It's from back in 2008 when he was still with us.  A great anecdote included in it:

A friend tells a recent story. After watching as Sir Sean rebuffed yet another autograph hunter in the street with a typical four-letter rebuke, the friend asked Connery why he was so reluctant to sign his name for his fans.

'I'm not getting paid for it,' barked back Connery. 'These b******s sell my signature on the internet for hundreds of dollars. They're making a killing off my back.'

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Permalink Reply by michelle on April 5, 2024 at 9:30am

Hate to sound a kill joy but its difficult to know for sure with your one as the sig is signed in a dark place so  you would have to have it in your hand to really know.  Here is one of mine , a little later than yoursI would wait for a clear sig imo unless  the price is right

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on April 5, 2024 at 9:43am

Nice later piece, michelle!  

p.s.  I hope you appreciated me sourcing from tabloid DM above...lol  😂

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Permalink Reply by michelle on April 5, 2024 at 10:29am

ha!! ha!!

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on April 5, 2024 at 11:40am

His whole life he was an ungracious, miserable old, Edinburgh Focker.  I have intimate knowledge of this as I am one and the same. I don't beat my wife, however, so we differ there.

I find it difficult to judge at first glance the potential authenticity of his signature pre-the- book Being a Scot. He did sign a great deal of these and that is probably the best template for comparison purposes.  The OP pic I can't actually see so won't comment.

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on April 5, 2024 at 11:41am

I would say that Michelle's example looks sound in my experience.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 5, 2024 at 12:02pm

I must agree re wife beating. His comments with Walters were unacceptable, then or now. As an aside, it is interesting how some flawed celebs get a pass and other do not.

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on April 5, 2024 at 1:26pm

It is curious how some are chosen for cancellation and others not - I must say.

If you look at his wiki-page there is no mention of  "controversy".

Connery - was he a Mason, e.g. ? I don't know that,  just guessing - it's the kind of thing that might have appealed to him. It might explain a thing or two.

Just another dead celeb - who cares, really?  Personally I am done with him.

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