Comment by Martin Slack on January 3, 2014 at 5:56am

Anyone know if this is former baseball star Jack Bentley ????

Comment by terrier8HOF on January 4, 2014 at 12:51pm

there is one listed on ebay currently and it looks nothing like this.

Comment by Martin Slack on January 4, 2014 at 2:37pm

Hi Terrier,
Thanks for your reply. I have looked at several Bentley autographs and some look alike and some look totally different.
This autograph come from an album that was signed between 1948-1950... This was the only famous Jack Bentley I know from then.
I also have an autograph of Buster Keaton but it looks nothing like Keaton's signature but it comes from a collection I purchased of over 1000 autographs and all the others appear to be correct.
Why would Keaton's not be original !!!!
Wish I knew...Keaton's autograph is worth a few quid.
Martin

Comment by terrier8HOF on January 4, 2014 at 2:58pm

I saw two Jack Bentley's in a google search and both of them slanted to the right. However, it is possible that when he got older, he changed his signature.  hard to tell, though.

Comment by Martin Slack on January 4, 2014 at 11:00pm

Ok thanks.
Martin

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