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

Isn't this an Autopen signature?

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Permalink Reply by DB on May 2, 2012 at 11:07am

ANyone want to opine on these two especially with the Harvey discussions that have been ongoing?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on May 2, 2012 at 6:04pm

What Harvey discussions?

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Permalink Reply by DB on May 3, 2012 at 12:22am

The commentary scattered through out this thread.

Are the ones above authentic or not?

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Permalink Reply by Brick Hunter on May 3, 2012 at 3:35am

Hmm... I think they look pretty good to me. It's easier to tell with larger images though.

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Permalink Reply by DB on May 3, 2012 at 4:51am

\here you go

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on May 3, 2012 at 11:14am

These look likely authentic to me.

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Permalink Reply by Brick Hunter on May 3, 2012 at 5:56pm

Yep.

I posted this earlier in the thread; here's what you'll see on the extremely questionable Harvey drawings:

The signature you posted and then these are very different. I've seen a couple Harvey drawings like the one you posted DB which seem to be authentic. Perhaps then he did sign a bunch of these like Herman suggested and then the forgers just came around and made hundreds or thousands more.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on May 3, 2012 at 6:19pm

I've been studying Stewart closely and one thing I have learned is there is a very fine line between too neat and too messy. The key to divining good from bad is knowing where that line is.

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Permalink Reply by Brick Hunter on May 4, 2012 at 10:47pm

Hey DB, where did those examples come from?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on May 18, 2012 at 1:19pm

Sanity check time.

I picked this up on ebay. Looks good to me, but I appreciate a second set of eyeballs. :-)

Anyone know what movie this is from?

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Permalink Reply by Brick Hunter on May 19, 2012 at 3:33pm

Looks good to me. Solid signature from a bit later-in-life. Probably the 1970's. Forgers rarely if ever try to or get right the shake in the body of his name right from a later time period. Nice piece. Shenandoah is right.