Jim Morrison Autograph discussion again

The seller of this guitar never mentioned a word about the writing (autograph?) on it when posting it for sale on-line.  He reduced the price because of it.  This was not sold to make more money because of the signature.  The seller seemed to be unaware as to who "Jim Morrison" may have been.  The guitar itself was a FIRST YEAR ISSUE of C. F. Martin & Co.'s Sigma line.   It was a comparatively expensive guitar in 1970.  It is difficult to believe that a guitarist (most of us worship the C. F. Martin & Co. line of guitars) would let anyone scrawl on their new treasure UNLESS they actually were a superstar that they saw in person doing it.

The guitar also has a note in the same marker on the back.  It is my understanding that forgers rarely add such extra handwriting "sampling" which makes forgery easier to detect.

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Comment by BallroomDays67 on April 4, 2020 at 7:13pm

Unfortunately, this definitely isn’t signed by Morrison in my opinion. It doesn’t look like whoever signed it was trying to forge his signature.

Comment by Rich on April 4, 2020 at 7:25pm

I know very little about Morrison's signature, but 1) that's not even close and 2) it looks like it was signed last week.

Comment by Paul on April 5, 2020 at 1:41am

most def a forgery 

Comment by JackGotLucky on April 5, 2020 at 4:08am

Sorry, but it's clearly not Jim's handwriting nor signature in my opinion. The rather dumb forger didn't even attempt to copy off an authentic exemplar. 

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