Mickey Mantle autograph on a huge drawing......but

I inherited something like 100 binders of autographs, my father in law got them from all sorts of sources.

Some of them draw suspicion to my inexperienced eye, such as this one.  The M and the Y in the inscription are totally different than in the signature.  I'm looking for other inscriptions, but in the meantime, does anyone have an opinion?  Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 29, 2018 at 6:23pm

If my name was Marty, I'd take this off your hands in a heartbeat.

Permalink Reply by mncnc on January 29, 2018 at 6:46pm

The Marty M and y being so different wouldn't trouble you?

Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 29, 2018 at 6:55pm

Not sure why he would do the M different in Marty, but I’m confident the signature is OK… So the differences do not concern me. You can see the a in Marty is identical to the a in Mantle… Same hand in my opinion.

Permalink Reply by mncnc on January 29, 2018 at 7:03pm

I did notice that the other letters seem to be the same.  I need to find something else written to Marty or Mary or Misty.......

Thank you for answering, by the way:-)

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on January 29, 2018 at 8:15pm

It appears to be his vintage "M". See here and scroll the examples way to the right after the baseballs, there are several examples and some hybrids of what was to come:

Mickey Mantle "M"' at PSA

Permalink Reply by mncnc on January 29, 2018 at 10:29pm

Thanks for the link.  My upper M and y look like those on the one before the yearbook photo. 

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on January 29, 2018 at 10:58pm

You are welcome :)

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 29, 2018 at 7:28pm

If my name was "Marty" I would definitely purchase it.

Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on January 30, 2018 at 2:01pm

that is one beautiful example of a Mantle signature

Permalink Reply by mncnc on January 30, 2018 at 3:52pm

Thank you everyone for your time!

Permalink Reply by mncnc on January 31, 2018 at 3:33pm

Not wanting to beat a dead horse, but I have one more question about this one, having looked at a lot of things from the binders.  If you download the picture and zoom in on it, it's like it's the perfect signature.  No stops and starts with areas of extra/less ink.  Is that okay, and if so is it because of whatever pen he used?  I haven't been able to zoom in on an other Mantle signatures.

Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 31, 2018 at 3:38pm

Typically when you see stops and starts in an autograph, that is NOT a good thing! :-)

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