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Thoughts on Harry Houdini?

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on September 1, 2024 at 1:11am

I would treat this with extreme caution. I certainly cannot claim to be a Houdini expert but I do own a couple and I researched his autograph quite a lot around the time I bought them.

To me the OP example lacks a certain looseness and looks too uniform, especially the HHs. I also don't think the HHs normally look so much like flamboyant AAs.

Here is one of mine that dates from around the same period and a much earlier postcard that I once tried to win on eBay:

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Permalink Reply by Rick Meyer on September 1, 2024 at 12:11pm

Not a Houdini expert but autographs themselves were not a popular hobby when this would have been signed. Then to have a Comic Con like quote added to it? I doubt it. If it was more of a letter or something written directly to the person like you see in Pugs examples that would make it more believable.