Magician HARRY HOUDINI (who died in 1926) signs an autograph album page printed in 1945!

....and PSA/DNA approves it and encapsulates it.  

The 40s era swing band + bobbysoxer artwork on the album page should have been the first clue. 

Here's another example of the page Houdini allegedly "signed" in the 1940's and a sample of the copyright page of the album that was used to create the now PSA'd signature.

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I showed this listing to an advanced Houdini collector (not a general autograph collector).

They responded that the OP looks perfectly legit.  I pointed out the issues regarding the 1945 paper/album it came from and they agreed that that is "troubling" but that the signature looks much better than any other fake they had seen.

Willful Ignorance.

I think that official PSA seal of approval goes a long way with most who look at something like this.

It is going less and less to some with these occurrences.

Perhaps "advanced Houdini collector,"

I am astounded at what I see being sold as real in various specialty collection groups online that I've checked out.

If it has a TPA barcode attached to it, let the admiring comments begin.

Nudge me when these stickers/papers become a liability.

The artist of the illustrations in that autograph book was 12 years old when Houdini passed away:

Theresa Hilda D’Alessio (June 25, 1914 – October 13, 2006), better known as Hilda Terry, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Teena. 

She had quite a career, from the 1930s up through the early years of computer animation.

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