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Permalink Reply by Richard Booth on November 23, 2019 at 12:52pm

They look weird. It looks like they were originally signed in pencil and somebody has gone over them with ink. I’d certainly pass on those.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on November 23, 2019 at 1:13pm

+1

And why did they dot one of the 'e's in Sincerely? There's an 'i' in Larry Fine's name. One would expect that Larry would be more aware than most of which words have 'i's and which don't.

Every letter is uneven as far as thick and thin. Looks like paint by numbers autographs, the epitome of kitchen table forgeries.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Marcus on November 23, 2019 at 2:00pm

Good point about the circle over the Sincerely, but I've seen that before.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on November 24, 2019 at 1:24pm

Something to consider. In the 1980s, the typical available resource for exemplars were found in published books on the subject. There were only a few available at first, reliable anyway, and then more followed. In these books, as there are in most, were errors. Mistakes. The occasional fake auto represented in the books as being genuine. This happened by mistake, an error on the part of the author, or design; an intentional error.. a spike, included to detect copyright infringement, or maybe to see who may use that erroneous inclusion as a basis for their forgery!

Point I'm making is that the circle over the 'e' in "Sincerely" may be the byproduct of copying a fake exemplar and not necessarily ever penned by Larry Fine in one of his authentic autographs.

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Permalink Reply by James on November 23, 2019 at 4:52pm

The Larry Fine looks slowly-drawn to me.

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