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Harrison Ford Questionable Autographs

Some of you know me, and from what I understand, someone caught selling yet another bad Ford autograph has once again, decided to spout off at the mouth. Claims that I am a dealer and I only tell unsuspecting autograph buyers that their item is fake so that I can sell my own Harrison Fords. Again I am hearing claims that the likely supplier of the forgeries is the true expert on Harrison Ford autographs.

Side note the seller sent me a friend request message yesterday with the single question about if I knew a particular collector. In my world this says plenty, and likely tells me where the piece originated.

When I tell people that I track the sale of Harrison Ford autographs, I am not kidding around, I watch sales here, I watch sales on rebelscum and on ebay and other online auction sites.

Who signed them? Who is the forger? I am not going to play games and point fingers, nor will I even guess if the supplier is the forger, all I can do is put together where they came from.

I will give the people that have had these in their possession, that courtesy. They can come clean about where they got them as the "in-person" and "private signing" stories fall apart.

This is the same courtesy I tried to provide to Marc Moser, the last guy caught in a huge Ford Forgery mess. He decided to drag my name thru the mud for a few months as well, but by doing that he just shot himself in the foot. People will wake up sooner or later, and the truth does come out.

I present these images to you, again supplying the signatures and letting the people on this forum and others as judge, you decide the truth. You will also be the deciding factor if these autograph professionals keep their reputations or if they have earned brand new ones.

Every item below has been tracked to the most recent seller, and through his own admission the source of the autographs, I will also include items sold elsewhere by the supplier who admitted on these very pages to supplying some of these.

The pattern is pretty clear to me.

As for the recent claims about me being a dealer, out to only hurt other peoples supposedly reputable business.

Please keep in mind, that anyone that has purchased anything at all from me in the past 5 years has approached me. When they do I usually point them in other directions and offer to authenticate (for free) any item they ask about, from any other source.

Tags: Ford, Han, Harrison, Indiana, Jones, Solo, Star, Wars

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Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on February 17, 2017 at 5:45pm

The Force poster is more attractive to me, but I like the signature on the Ford photo better. Wish the poster was signed in silver and I believe they had some that sold first. Not a fan of the first pic posted period including the end of the signature. Its all personal preference. I wouldn't mind owning the Ford photo.

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Permalink Reply by Bobby Kennedy Baron on February 17, 2017 at 6:10pm

Personally if I had to choose between the two, I'd go with the photo. It's a couple hundred cheaper and is nearly sold out after only being added just last week, so it'll probably have good resale value in the future. If you want a modern sit down Ford right this second, it's your best bet.

The poster has been sitting there for a year and has lasted though some price reductions, so either there's not a ton of demand for it or the market is saturated with them. Also getting the poster could turn into a project and without Carrie it would be incomplete, not to mention it would cost a ton to get the new cast on there.

Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on February 17, 2017 at 6:17pm

The one thing I should add.....for full disclosure of my honest opinion.....the film sucked. Yes I have the photo signed because I have 150 -200 Fords, and leaving one out isn't in my nature.

I wouldn't own the poster, and if it were something I was spending good money on, to be my one and only Ford autograph, it certainly would not be from a film I really disliked.

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Permalink Reply by Bradford on February 24, 2017 at 8:58pm

How do these look, Pete?

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on February 25, 2017 at 4:15am

No on the Jedi shot, yes on the ANH shot.

Permalink Reply by Bradford on February 25, 2017 at 11:08am

An actual legit CA find....

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on February 25, 2017 at 11:40am

Yes, just means that Harrison signed it, it doesn't mean it's pretty or worth the kidney you may have to part with to own it.

Permalink Reply by Jeff Herrmann on February 17, 2017 at 6:21pm

I actually have 7 of those reprint posters and the most recent vintage posters from Derek at Coolwaters. The graphs on my posters are right and much more solid than what is shown. Same signing as those. I got gold and silver on the posters. Also a pressbook with him. Again, signature is solid and tight and fairly ledgible. Much nicer than shown. Coolwaters, same. Good looking signatures but completely different style than the OP. I have another vintage from Derek from one of his first signings and it looks completely different but still good. It's like when he signs in mass he picks a style and locks into it and blows through the stack like he's signing a mortgage. I'm personally extremely happy with the OPX and Derek's. It's nice getting graphs from them just because they are good sit downs every time and provenance is not even questionable.

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Permalink Reply by Jake on February 23, 2017 at 10:08am

Well Ive finally narrowed down my Ford search between these two. They are good right?

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on February 25, 2017 at 4:17am

Unless I saw them signed and there was some reason for the major issues with both, I wouldn't authenticate either, and I wouldn't want either.

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Permalink Reply by pjotry on February 25, 2017 at 4:37am

a quick question to pete or any other member who knows Ford signatures,

would you be able to recognise a forged autograph if for instance a device like autopen was used? with all the hightech devices like 3dprinters etc it wouldnt be that hard to let a computer copy an exact autograph i think?

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on February 25, 2017 at 4:53am

That's an excellent question. Autopens have a pattern or multiple patterns that the machine follows, when it comes to Ford I believe I would be able to spot the wobble that an autopen produces while signing, but thankfully to this date Harrison has not used an autopen machine.

Even if I was unable to pick up on the wobble, the minute a second or third item (with the exact same signature) hit the market, it would be spotted.

Harrison has indeed sent out preprinted images with the signature as part of the print, and again the minute one is in hand or a second piece is spotted, I can certainly tell.

The real trick is trusting the person asking about a piece. I am not an authenticator and I do not have an address where people can send the physical item for inspection. Seeing an image online, doesn't allow me to see the signature under magnification to verify that it isn't some kind of home made computer copy. I have to leave that part to the person holding the actual item, I am only commenting on the words and or autograph and if it is in Harrison Ford's handwriting.

A magnified look, and sometimes an unmagnified look will tell the person with the item, if the pen flows the way it should or if the whole signature is one laid on or laid over print job.