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Autograph's Johnny Cash Signature Study — Be Part of It!

Has there ever been a nicer, more humble, more fan friendly superstar than Johnny Cash?

Johnny was the Babe Ruth of Country Music—the top-ranking Country artist of all time and the most loved. And Johnny loved his fans as much as they love him. So while like the Babe, Cash signed untold numbers of autographs, the supply could never meet demand...and probably never will.

Fans who couldn't meet Cash in person often requested autographs through the mail. The common belief is that he personally autographed those requests. But between his demanding touring schedule and later, his failing health and vision, it seems impossible that he could have signed even half of the mail he received.

A growing number of collectors and dealers now believe that many if not most Johnny Cash through the mail autographs were secretarial. We want to see if we can identify any secretarial styles, and at the same time build a reference collection of no-question genuine Cash exemplars to help identifying forgeries.

Are There Johnny Cash Secretarials?
If So, How Do We Identify Them?
Help Find Out!

You can be an important part of the study in three ways:

Upload into this discussion images of Johnny Cash autographs that you personally received through the mail, and tell us when you received them. (The year is fine, but if you know the date, even better.)
Upload images of Johnny's autographs that YOU saw signed by Johnny yourself. Include the date or at least year, too. If you didn't see it signed yourself (like pre-signed ones sold or given away at shows), please don't upload it.
As more and more images are uploaded, see if you can identify characteristics that are commonly found on Johnny's through the mail autographs that are rarely if ever seen on ones signed in person.

With your help, we can identify Cash secretarials if they're out there. Over time this should increase the value of genuine Johnny Cash autographs, and help protect future fans and collectors against autographs that aren't authentic.

Once we finish this phase of the study, we'll go on to identifying genuine Johnny Cash autographs from forgeries.

Let's go!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 21, 2017 at 5:23pm

Danny,

Since that's not Johnny Cash, please post it as a separate discussion here:

http://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/categories/is-this-autograp...

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Danny Hurd on August 21, 2017 at 5:55pm

Ok Steve. What did you think of the other three Cash autographs.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 21, 2017 at 6:05pm

I liked them all, but as I said, there are many better than me on Cash.

Permalink Reply by Fred on December 16, 2017 at 4:24pm

Two identical signed albums (1965 Orange Blossom Special) from Johnny Cash. Both items are signed backstage in the 1980`s. One of them I bought from a big fan. Both signatures don`t look the same, can anyone tell me they are authentic?

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Permalink Reply by marc e on December 17, 2017 at 4:33pm

the top one looks fine

the bottom could be real just signed possible during a pushing match with collects so the album moved .that's the best reason I have for the starts and stops .

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Permalink Reply by Fred on December 18, 2017 at 6:01am

Thanks for you comment John.

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Permalink Reply by marc e on December 17, 2017 at 4:33pm

boo boo . delete

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Permalink Reply by william on December 19, 2017 at 9:30am

The first one matches mine the second doesn't look like his.

I sent my lp to his home when he was alive with a letter it came back autographed.

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Permalink Reply by marc e on December 23, 2017 at 4:57pm

in person from me ,original signed poster

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Permalink Reply by Chris Weatherford on January 30, 2018 at 10:33pm

Any thoughts on this signature? Anyone have any info on the poster? It’s 18x24 on thick stock. If real, and I believe it is, Value? I’ve searched hours and hours with no luck. I could not find another like it or even close so any info would be appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by marc e on January 31, 2018 at 6:02pm

the poster isn't worth anything .

I'm not 100 percent sold on the signature maybe because the pen was running out of ink.

I'm just not sold on the j o in johnny

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 31, 2018 at 7:04pm

Chris,

I hate to say it, but I agree with John Shaw. Your Johnny Cash signature doesn't look right to me. Johnny's writing wasn't as polished as the autograph on your poster.

The letters on yours are all nicely formed. If you look at ones in this discussion agreed to be real, you'll see that his letter formations were fairly crude.