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Michael Jackson Signing Styles in Julien's Tompkins and Bush Sale

On December 2, Julien's Auctions is selling The Collection of Tompkins and Bush. The collection contains 465 lots of Michael Jackson memorabilia, 287 of them autographed.

Michael Bush and the late Dennis Tompkins were Michael Jackson's costume designers for 25 years, during Jackson's most successful period. They were the consignors of the signed Thriller jacket that Julien's sold for $1,800,000 in June 2011.

Almost all of the autographs in the Tompkins and Bush sale are a variation I'm not familiar with. I've only been looking at Jackson's autograph for a few years, though, and we have members here who have collected him for decades, so I'd appreciate your input and exemplars.

If you know Michael Jackson's autograph well, please look at a few images below from the auction and let me know what you think. Even better, browse the auction and upload any similar examples you have: http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/77/

Julien's is the world's premier auction house for Michael Jackson memorabilia, so they would know his autograph better than most of us. I'm just surprised I haven't seen this style before.

Thanks for your help.

Tags: 2012, Julien's, auction, michael jackson, tompkins and bush

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Permalink Reply by Caroline Maberly on December 17, 2012 at 4:41pm

the seller has taken our comments on board, hope you didn't mind me doing that and the sale is now ust for the jacket as he does not think it is a real sig!

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Permalink Reply by Justin on December 17, 2012 at 4:29pm

you are so smart TeamMichael777.. thank you for all your hard work.

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Permalink Reply by TeamMichael777 on December 17, 2012 at 5:28pm

Thank you Justin, its always a Team effort, of which YOU are a big part, Thank you Justin for finding the smoking gun.. I knew of the trademark because of my involvement with all the trademarks owned by HTWF, I've been a strong advocate in that case.

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Permalink Reply by Caroline Maberly on December 17, 2012 at 5:30pm

so, is that type of autograph always not by michael?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 18, 2012 at 5:12pm

KNBC-TV Los Angeles is running an investigative report tonight on Julien's Auctions' Tompkins & Bush Michael Jackson sale. It will be on the News at 11, after the finale of "The Voice"...which means it should have 4-5 times the normal audience.

It should be on their website about midnight Pacific Time. Look for it at http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/.

KNBC would not have known about the Michael Jackson forgeries if it weren't for Michael's amazing "crazed fans"...with a huge shout-out to TeamMichael777 who first contacted me about the forgeries on November 15.

Thank you all...No doubt Michael would be proud of you.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle on December 18, 2012 at 5:38pm

Thank you Steve. I appreciate this site and all you have done to get a fair platform to discuss. Thank you Michael Frost & Roger Epperson, Taaj, Justin, Sandy, Wendy, Manu, Face - everyone who participated. We are not done, but finally, someone is listening outside of this community.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Frost on December 18, 2012 at 6:00pm

Thank you all, this was a complete team afford. There is alot more going on and this is far from over. This is just the 1st step in making the general public aware of what has been discussed on this site.

No one would have listened without the true Michael Jackson fan's and their knowlege of Michael Jackson's daily activities, signing habits and some of the best authentic exemplars posted.

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Permalink Reply by TeamMichael777 on December 18, 2012 at 6:28pm

I second all the comments here :-) THANK YOU EVERYONE... YOU ARE THE BEST!! Way to go Steve you did it....

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Christine on December 18, 2012 at 6:23pm

This is finally some good news.. Thank you for letting us know, Steve.

I had all but given up on the media.

I want to thank everybody involved in bringing this to light. It has truly been a team effort all the way. And I know we are still Together and working Strong.