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Buddy Holly

I believe I've come across quite a find! But finding it almost to good to be true...maybe someone out there could help! I'm in Madison Wisconsin and stopped by a local antique store and uncovered what looks like an authentic Buddy Holly signed photo. It comes with three photos from his Kenosha Wi show which was shortly before his death. The signature looks beautiful in the lower right corner of the photo almost falling off the photo overlapping at times which leads me to believe it was actually signed by him. Theres certain inconsistancies in the ink that I dont think would show up on a copy. The question I have for you is when checking out a signature and it doesnt make an indent in the photo, what does that lead you to think? Is it possible to have a signature that doesnt leave an indent while using a ball point pen?

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Permalink Reply by Mr. Otter Bubotter on January 2, 2010 at 11:02pm

Andrew,
There are cases that an ink pen or ballpoint pen might not leave an indentation. This would happen if only the ink was flowing very freely and the signer did not apply pressure. But usually in most cases there is always enough pressure that the photo would have had an indent. You need to look at the image under a high powered magnifying glass or if you have a scanner and the program called Photoshop. Scan in the image at 600DPI and open the scanned image in Photoshop and you will see the pours of the photo and any indents in the signature.

Good Luck

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 2, 2010 at 11:13pm

Walt--good advice. Welcome to Live!

Permalink Reply by Andrew Killgallon on January 3, 2010 at 9:24am

Thanks for the advice! As with the photos, after alot of research I found that the photo was taken by Dick Cole who met Buddy Holly and took the photo in Waterloo Iowa and later at other shows to get many of his own photos signed. I've only been able to find one other copy of this photo and it too was signed by Buddy Holly right where mine is signed. His photo however has all four members of Buddy Holly and the Crickets which leads me to believe mine is one of those he brought back with him to get signed. I'll be actually getting in contact with the original photographer to verify everything. For those who google Dick Cole, he did mass produce one of the signed photos from his collection to raise money for a foundation. Mine is not that photo.

Permalink Reply by Josh Board on January 15, 2010 at 2:30pm

Another thing to consider is: the price. If they're selling it for $50, it's probably bogus.

Also...make sure it's not a copy. I saw an ad for an autographed Doors post card that a woman claimed to have gotten from the Fillmore at a show. I went to this antique shop her husband owned, and saw that it was the EXACT photo in the Doors book "No One Here Gets Out Alive" (where the band is looking up at the camera). I said "How would the signatures look exactly the same? This is obviously just something the band had copies made of, and handed out.

I wanted to ask if she'd lower the price for $1,000 to $10. Had she, I might've purchased it.

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