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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on August 6, 2014 at 4:50pm

the signature is questionable, and where it was signed is not typical at all for a HOF plaque. I would avoid this.

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Permalink Reply by Randy on August 6, 2014 at 5:00pm

Thanks.

This came in a large through the mail collection I recently purchased. The collector was meticulous and kept the return envelopes. This one was returned in 1987. He had included an additional Dodger post card of Koufax that was returned unsigned. 

I figured if he was using a ghost signer they would have signed both. It just looked too close to his autograph for me to believe it was secretarial. It obviously is not a recent forgery attempt but you could be right and it might be secretarial.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on August 7, 2014 at 3:53am

Reportedly, some TTM requests were done by a Koufax proxy signer. I suspect this is one of them.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on August 7, 2014 at 4:01am

his older signatures were pretty consistent.  I got him in the mail in the early 80's and he personalized it to me.

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Permalink Reply by David S on August 7, 2014 at 5:13am

i agree with the others, leaning towards 'not authentic'....a couple things i don't like about it, but most notably the end of the signature

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