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Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on July 22, 2019 at 8:30am

You may want to begin by investigating who “Lenny” is.  Best of luck, Rob.  Please keep us posted.

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Permalink Reply by rob kunne on July 22, 2019 at 9:05am

i bought it from lenny...he was present at that event.and what could be the use of puting the best wishes lenny above the autograph and losing value?. it's not a joke mike but stil aware this autograph is not used much by james... did have many gandolfini autographs in mine collection and even with only a ''j'' and ending with a horizontal stripe? authenticated by psa-dna. i sold these because i did not like and could pass it as a autograph. that's why i liked the full autograph on the poster. wil keep searching!.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on July 22, 2019 at 11:29am

Rob, if you trust Lenny, then you should rest easy.  Provenance is more important than any TPA in this hobby.  I own many items that I would not waste time sending to a TPA because I trust the people who I conduct business with.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Alderton on July 22, 2019 at 9:38am

This one I bought last month with a Steiner & Mead Chamsky holograms.

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Permalink Reply by rob kunne on July 22, 2019 at 9:47am

this autograph you see the most...and steiner collect autographs all in person...looks a bid faded but this is a great item !...

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Alderton on July 22, 2019 at 9:51am

It is a bit faded. But got it for it for a decent price on shopgoodwill.com believe it or not.

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Permalink Reply by rob kunne on July 22, 2019 at 11:00am

this one comes very close to the autograph on the poster and with beckett authentication.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on July 22, 2019 at 11:34am

Rob, this autograph is much different than the one on the poster.  Like I said, provenance trumps everything else.  Rest easy if Lenny is someone who you trust.

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Permalink Reply by Paunch Show Greg on October 28, 2020 at 9:25pm

Hi Rob, I know this is a post from last year, but I have an example from that era I know is 100% because it came from a family member who met him. 

Also found one online auctioned that came from Heritage that was personalized to Yogi Berra.

Honestly, I've only seen a few sigs of James' even close to this poster and they were on auction sites.  Even his rushed/street graph was not close to it. 

His "sit down" graph was almost always full first and last names, and the "Best Wishes" don't really match either.  I understand that "Lenny" says he was there, but it's just very odd that Gandolfini would take the time to fully write out Lenny, most of Best Wishes, then barely jot his own name out, at a fundraiser no less. 

In any case, hopefully these examples are helpful to those who come across this thread.

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