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Look at this Bette Davis autograph please

Hello, I've had this autograph in an autograph book for several months, but I' m still not sure if it genuine or not. I made 3 attachements of her original autographs. Compare them please with mine. I need as much opinions as possible. Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by George Karr on December 31, 2013 at 12:03am

Thank you for your answer! Bette Davis had such a "childish" signature to me and most of her original signatures that I've seen look so different- that I still can't say for sure that this autograph in the autograph book is fake.

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Permalink Reply by George Karr on December 31, 2013 at 3:31am

Here's the list of Bette Davis' secretarial http://www.isitreal.com/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlin...

I've bought this autograph book on Ebay UK for less then 5 pounds. I needed to take a quick decision, as the auction was ending. And the only reason why I decided to buy it, as the seller wrote that there were some unidentified signatures in the book. Also there are many poems and they dated from 1940 to 1943- I think the autographs were taken at the same period. I didn't succeed to find out whose signatures there were...but I do not regret about the purchase, even if all the signatures are fake. This is a part of collecting autographs: I've looked through so many different beautiful Bette Davis photos and read so many interesting about her- and I think I would never do that without this strange autograph.

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Permalink Reply by George Karr on December 31, 2013 at 5:19am

Yeah, I thought of sending it to PSA/DNA - if I send, I will write about the results. Thank you for your opinion!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Shinn on December 31, 2013 at 5:37am

Gregory

I am sorry to say that this is a forgery.

The Signature does not match the known published authentic exemplars of a Bette Davis Signature.

Also compared it to late authentic exemplars from 1985 thru 87 and still no match.

Sorry

Bob

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Permalink Reply by George Karr on December 31, 2013 at 5:58am

Thank you for your opinion! But I was ready for this being a forgery. So, no regrets. As i wrote I paid for it about 8$. JSA takes 20$ for Bette Davis, but I think they'd do the same job with such an autograph as we do- just quickly compare it with the authentic exemplars. It's better to have more opinions on this autograph in here.