Second Opinions on Mickey Mantle Signature?

I work for a used and rare bookstore, and would love some second opinions from more seasoned eyes on a Mantle signature in a copy of My Favorite Summer. Usually I'm pretty confident with our ability to establish provenance and to compare with known examples, but I've been looking through examples of both legit and fake Mantle signatures and am still not entirely sure what I'm looking for. This has been in our poorly-trafficked rare lockup for a while so I unfortunately don't know where or when we acquired it. We are just north of Dallas, though, and I know he lived there from about the late 50s to his death, so we're at least in the area where coming across a book signed in the last few years of his life would be plausible.

Anyway, here's the signature. Seems to evade the banana issue to me, but I keep wondering about the lack of loops. Any thoughts? Thanks for taking a look!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 11, 2017 at 10:19am

I like it. Let's see what the members who know Mantle the best have to say.

Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on July 11, 2017 at 12:44pm

Thumbs up.

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 11, 2017 at 3:57pm

Nice and very authentic!!!

Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 11, 2017 at 7:36pm

authentic

Permalink Reply by Bookslinger on July 12, 2017 at 7:27am

Thanks for the extra eyes, all! Last thing I ever want to do is accidentally sell a fake, but I'm feeling a lot better about this one now. 

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