Starting this separate thread to track the Liza Minnelli autopen situation.

Signed copies of her new book, Kids Wait Till You Hear This!, include autopen signatures. 

You may also visit the original Liza Minnelli thread, established when the book was announced, to read about the initial development of this issue:

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/liza-minelli-kids-w...

Feel free to post your examples or any info on the return situation. 

Overlay Video 1 (click title to play video)

Note how “Liza” matches up (click title)

Overlay Video 2

-First round, note how the “Love” appears to overlay nearly exactly

-Second round, the circle of the smiley face appears to overlap closely, and the L is starting to line up as well 

-Third round, the Z and the A in “Liza” appear to lineup closely.

Overlay Video 3

Notice how almost all of the smiley face lines up on this one

-With a slight adjustment, notice how the Z and the A start to align as well


Overlay Video 4

Watch the top of the smiley face. All I am doing is bringing the circle of the smiley face into line. Watch how the Z falls into place. Watch how the top loop of the L falls into place. The “A” is a little off and also the “I” but you can see how they seem to be off by a very small and consistent distance. 

Overlay Video 5

Watch how the “OVE” lines up exactly on two examples received by the same person

Overlay Video 6

Notice where “Love” is lining up on these and how much of Liza lines up with a slight shift

Overlay Video 7

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Some of the segments are individually lining up….yet the two signatures appear different on face and when overlaid as a whole.

Example: 

First, notice how the L lines up in “Love”: 



Make a slight adjustment that then brings the “ove” into line: 

Slightly adjust again to bring the L of “Liza” into line: 



Slightly adjust again to bring the Z and A into alignment (also notice the “I” and the comma): 

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It appears that the autopen signatures in these books were generated by an advanced autopen machine that can produce subtle variations in letter structure and placement that would disguise the use of autopen. Please see this video to learn more on how this works: 

https://youtu.be/pROf6q-9POU

A thread has also been created to make others aware of this type of autopen usage and discuss if interested:

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/beware-of-the-new-a...

Tags: Autopen, Hear, Kids, Liza, Minnelli, This!, Till, Wait, You

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Does this mean it’s authentic?

Not necessarily. There was nothing about it that VeriMarx picked up on and reported as indicating that it might not be authentic.

I have two copies one of each from two small uk independent stores - are you still looking for examples ? 

 For sure, I’ll let them in if you want post them


*I meant I’ll ADD them in…sorry about that 

Here is Julie M and Axelp123 overlay with “love”…not exact but close and notice how Liza weirdly coming into line too 

This was uploaded to another site - from the USA ( not sure the point of purchase). Different bookplate than mine or others on EBay with her image. 

Thanks Johnny, that’s interesting…I’ve added this in.

I know there’s a lot of overlapping activity on the thread, so reminder for everyone please be sure to read back through and not just the latest comment

First book is from Wave of Nostalgia uk independent book store.

The second book is from The Bookery uk independent book store.

Attachments: No photo uploads here

Got it and noted….I’ve added these in. Thanks Lester. 


I know there’s a lot of overlapping activity on the thread, so reminder for everyone please be sure to read back through and not just the latest comment (if you are following). I apologize if I’m talking over anyone’s comment.

Both of Lester's show mechanical movements.

Lester, could you please take very high-resolution images (3000+ pixels wide) of the first and last names and the face separately, and either save them as PNGs or send me the phone's files? They can't be even slightly degraded like most JPEGs are. I'll do a deep analysis of them.

Send them to my mailbox here.

All members: I'd like to get yours, too. very high-resolution images of Liza's first name, last name, and face separately, as close as can be, and saved as PNGs or the native file format.

Sure 

I’ll do it tomorrow in daylight not now it’s dark ! 

Steve, whatever you are doing with these and whoever you talk to behind the scenes, make sure you and everyone involved acknowledge and gives credit to Matt M. for all of his hard work.. can't stress that enough 

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