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Magnificent Tyrone Power piece----if authentic.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 2, 2022 at 8:18am

Garrett - I've seen this item online. Sadly, not from Ty's hand. This is the late 1930's secretarial style sent out to fans by 20th Century Fox.

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Permalink Reply by Garrett Meadows on July 3, 2022 at 12:39pm

What about this Ty Power piece? Admittedly, the inscription and signature aren't as bold as one would like.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 3, 2022 at 12:58pm

Secretarial.

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Permalink Reply by Garrett Meadows on July 3, 2022 at 12:42pm

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 3, 2022 at 12:58pm

Secretarial.

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Permalink Reply by Garrett Meadows on July 3, 2022 at 1:06pm

Man, I just can't win. But, hey, that's better than being taken to the cleaners.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 3, 2022 at 1:21pm

Finding an authentic pre-WWII service Ty is going to be a bit difficult. Album pages can be had. I'd continue to be very careful with photos.

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Permalink Reply by Garrett Meadows on July 2, 2022 at 1:22pm

Oh, darn! Such a great image of Ty. Thanks for saving me.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 2, 2022 at 2:22pm

Is this 5x7?

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 2, 2022 at 3:44pm

You're quite welcome, Garrett. The secretary who did this was quite skillful in many respects. They had obviously had studied his signature.

I'm attaching a signed photo of him and then wife Annabella. I think you will see the differences. There's much more smoothness to the real one. Here's some other traits:

"T" in "Tyrone" quite different, continuous flow between "y" & "r", no dip between "w" and "e", "r" in "Power" looks somewhat more like a "B" in the real one). It is close and the secretary was certainly pretty good at their job.

I've been interested in Tyrone Power for many years. I've found that his pre-WWII signed photos are rather elusive. I think this is because of how huge a star he was in a span of about 4 years during that period. I sure the secretaries were kept very busy with requests. When he came back from the service, his signature had changed and he seemed to sign a lot more photos.

Feel free to post any other candidates. I certainly enjoy looking at them.