Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 7, 2012 at 10:34pm

Did Roger authenticate this?

Comment by Travis Christenberry on April 7, 2012 at 11:43pm

No. Why?

Comment by Travis Christenberry on April 8, 2012 at 12:33am

To be a little more clear, I DO NOT have a certificate from Roger for this item. But Roger looked at images I sent him and he said it was authentic. I don't want to take it out of it's frame and send it off for authentication because it's tearing at the folds and I don't want to damage it anymore than it's already damaged. Roger did authenticate two of my Michael Jackson items and the other one is PSA authenticated.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 8, 2012 at 11:58am

Sorry for the delay, Travis. I was curious if he saw it because it's signed with unusually even pen pressure for Michael and the top of the J usually isn't that straight—they tend to curve at least slightly to the left. Roger sees tons more of these than I do, so I wanted to ask him about it.

Have you read our feature on MJ? If not, here: http://autographmagazine.com/2010/01/michael-jackson-remembered-in-...

Comment by Travis Christenberry on April 8, 2012 at 1:56pm

I sent 4 images of the autograph to Roger because I know what you mean as far as pen pressure. You can see with this image that the pen pressure is lighter in the longer strokes, it's just hard to see with my original posted picture with all of the flash from my camera. That silver paint pen really shows up nicely. Yes, I have read your MJ feature and it's full of great info.

Comment by Travis Christenberry on April 8, 2012 at 2:26pm

Steve, this is an example of this style of a straight "J".

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