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James Stewart Autographs: Which are Genuine, Autopens or Forgeries?

Isn't this an Autopen signature?

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Permalink Reply by Brick Hunter on February 23, 2014 at 2:46am

This one looks perfectly fine in my humble opinion. The "S" in Stewart is the clincher for me.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Shinn on January 16, 2014 at 1:22pm

let me ck

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Permalink Reply by Bob Shinn on January 16, 2014 at 1:30pm

Steve

it appears that this may be a forgery.

Do you have a larger scan that I can see?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 16, 2014 at 1:45pm

I can try to get one. I feel I have a pretty good handle on Stewart, but this is a tweener style I have struggled with. It seems a bit too messy and smashed up, yet it is close enough that I am not certain either way.

I'll see if I can get a better closeup.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on February 22, 2014 at 8:48am

I just added this Jimmy Stewart signed baseball to my collection. The signature is a bit messy, but it feels right to me.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on February 22, 2014 at 9:48am

Zipper, I think its secretarial......LOL!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on February 22, 2014 at 11:42am

To my knowledge, Stewart secretarials only appeared on the 5x7 black and white border signed portrait pics.... and they are pretty obvious. I think the secretary "pinch hit" for a short period when his health was failing, and then they started using an Autopen.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on February 22, 2014 at 12:06pm

Yeah, I doubt Mr. Stewart would have let a secretary touch his balls! Baseballs, I mean!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Oliver on February 22, 2014 at 6:39pm

I think the ball is good! I have one in my pictures that is the real deal. Take a look, Mr. Z.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Oliver on February 22, 2014 at 8:15pm

Here it is Mr. Zipper.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on February 22, 2014 at 8:32pm

Thanks, Bob.

I was pretty confident it was authentic. Bill at RR liked it and as I stated before, it feels right. You'll note the signature on my ball starts far to the left as does yours.

The seller had an interesting array of baseballs signed by sports and Hollywood celebrities. Everything looked legit.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on February 23, 2014 at 4:21pm

Looks like our old friend eBay seller gerryzu is back selling his unique brand of James Stewart signed photos. For those who may not recall, a few years ago this seller flooded the market with highly unusual James Stewart signatures.

The signatures are all strikingly similar:

A sharp, "jerky" appearance
Letters smashed together with poor letter definition
Odd spacing between letters
Never personalized
Many of them do not appear to be on glossy photos... they are on cardstock prints

The sad fact is that gerryzu sometimes gets more for these than undoubtedly authentic exemplars would go for.