The Vintage Signature of Jackie Gleason 1916-1987 "Ralph Kramden" 54 exemplars, All Known Secretarials and Preprints/Stamps.

The above vintage unique candid was from Gleason's final Estate sale.

Hi All,

In keeping with the format of the other threads about the vintage signatures of the main cast members of this beloved TV classic, this will, unlike my 4 part Richard Burton Signature Study, not be an in-depth illustrated biographical recount but a collection of authentic signatures presented in chronological order. This thread will be added to continually as I go through my exemplars. The initial iteration is presented below; much more will be added. This is intended to supersede all previous Gleason threads.. There are some 50 exemplars a long with all known secretarials, their names and periods with examples and link to even more.

October 13th, 1936(?) Billboard Document

April 15th, 1942 Tax document

January 17th,1944 Selective Service Registration Card

1944 album page:

1944 dedicated album page (0ne mine)

1945 cut stapled into a Playbill found for a member.March 18th, 1946 William Morris Agency Contract

1946 ANS

1948 dedicated album page

January-June, 1949 Playbill

C. 1950 candid

C. 1950 portrait

C. 1950's portrait

c. early 1950's photograph

C. 1950

c. early 1950's

August 27th, 1951 album pag (0nce mine)

September 10th, 1951 album page

1952

January 21st, 1953 postcard (once mine now a cut!)

May 8th,1953 What's My Line sign in

May 25th, 1954 Passport

May 25th, 1954 Passport detail 1

May 25th, 1954 Passport detail 2

c. 1950's album page

Here is a postcard from Ruby Foo's Den, which closed in July, 1957 so this is likely several years before based on the signature

September 4th, 1955 postcard (0nce mine)

1955 photograph MINE.

1956 book inscription "A Golden Ham", perhaps part of the limited softcover signed edition

1957 cut

September 21st-27th, 1959 Playbill

1961 signed card

1961 photograph

1962 oversized Ektachrome print - the only authentic signed color photograph I have ever seen (0nce mine)

1962 color oversized photograph detail - look for the paraph in earlier examples

1963 photograph

June 19th, 1967 UK Talk of The Town wine list (0nce mine)

October 25th, 1967 document

1969

1969 photograph detail

1970 TWA passengers logbook

c. 1973

1974 John Verzi Collection

1970's green felt tip signature

1977 Golf Program

Another 1970's example

1977 photograph

1977

C. 1970's. The lone Classic '39 "bus photo" authentically signed by all:

1977 photograph

1980's ballpoint

1980's magazine cover

1980's album page

1980's

The Vintage Autograph of Audrey Meadows 1922-1996 "Alice Kramden"

The Vintage Signature of Art Carney 1918 - 2003 "Ed Norton"

The Vintage Signature of Joyce Randolph 1924-2024 "Trixie Norton"

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I REALLY did not to get into Gleason's secretarial signatures as that is a whole book, but since that is what you will most likely encounter I should:

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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on August 31, 2025 at 10:38am

That is a very nice example. Of course, I love green ink.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on August 31, 2025 at 10:43am

Yes, that is a wonderful 70's lighter green. It really works well. Very unusual to see anything other than blue ballpoint for the 70's. I did see one in pencil though.