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Robert Taylor SP c. 1945 - Thoughts?

Real or secretarial?

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 9, 2022 at 5:02pm

I'm going to bump this since it got buried quickly this afternoon.

Opinions appreciated: Joe W., David L., KaiMi, Nick, Garrett &/or any of our other knowledgeable vintage Hollywood folk? Thanks in advance!

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 9, 2022 at 5:17pm

Sorry I don't know the sig.

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Permalink Reply by Garrett Meadows on July 10, 2022 at 11:41am

I have my doubts.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 10, 2022 at 11:43am

Thanks, Garrett...the more I look at other examples, I doubt this one too. I'm very skeptical of the vast majority of signed Taylor photos (and signed typed letters) that I've seen.

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on July 10, 2022 at 9:36pm

Etienne, Not a fan of this one.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 10, 2022 at 10:04pm

Thank you, David. I appreciate you coming in and I'm agreed. He's more of a rarity in authentic signed photos than I had suspected before digging a bit.

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Permalink Reply by KaiMi on July 13, 2022 at 10:14am

I'm not too familiar with Taylor, I know his rushed in-person sigs and this might be the slowlier written version. Does anybody have a secured secretary version for comparison?

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 13, 2022 at 11:17am

Thanks, KaiMi. Taylor is an interesting signer I've come to find out. At first, I thought that the one in my original post might have been real. Like Tyrone Power, RT's signature did change around the time of WWII. Here's an early signed photo from around 1938 that is quicker (on a Hurrell image). He became a huge star for MGM after MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION and it seems most of his 'signed' photos of the mid-30's-40's are secretarial. This one is from his hand:

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 13, 2022 at 11:31am

Here's an album page from that period:

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Permalink Reply by KaiMi on July 14, 2022 at 2:19am

This is mine from 1939:

Sorry for having it upside down now ...

In my opinion some parts of the sig seem to fit to your OP (the "R" for example), in other parts seemingly not. At the end of the day I cannot tell, sorry.

I think we would need examples of secured secretaries to judge.