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Permalink Reply by michael phillips on December 22, 2017 at 3:53pm

Karl, The AG is slowly drawn and not genuine in my opinion. Mike

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on December 22, 2017 at 8:22pm

I would say the Ford has an outside shot......if you can get a pic in angled light so that the ink shows up in the dark areas, I would be able to give you more of an idea if it is real.

The Guinness while it has some issues, I think they are just due to his age. The piece is completely his handwriting, but the signature does have some starts and stops and even a mis-step with the pen at the first N. Blame it on whatever you choose, it's not pretty, but it is Alec.

 

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Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on December 23, 2017 at 5:16am

Both autographs appear to be pretty typical to me.

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Permalink Reply by michael phillips on December 23, 2017 at 2:08pm

Hi Karl, Can I ask how long have you had the autograph and any idea when it was signed. Thanks Mke

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Permalink Reply by Karl hook on December 23, 2017 at 2:10pm

Have no idea when they were signed but i bought them approx 2008 from a website writestuffautographs,  im sure they are still up and running 

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Permalink Reply by michael phillips on December 23, 2017 at 2:14pm

Thanks Karl.

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Permalink Reply by Karl hook on December 23, 2017 at 2:19pm

Any particular reason ? Have you heard of writestuffautographs ?i bought them when i was still pretty uneducated on collecting. I personally dont think fords is legit, guinness im 50/50.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 23, 2017 at 2:27pm

I think the Guinness is fine. It appears he used a fountain pen on a glossy, which can drop a lot of ink... those blobs are fairly typical for fountain pen.

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Permalink Reply by michael phillips on December 23, 2017 at 2:58pm

Hi Karl, I've heard of WSA its not too far from where I live, up north.

When you said you got it when you was very young I thought maybe that was 30+ years ago, and it might have been signed some 10 years previous, meaning it could be 40+ years since the signing.  Given that time that it why I said I thought it was not genuine as his signature would have been much more fluent. As AG got older then the fluency did go as expected with old age.

Thanks Mike

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Permalink Reply by Karl hook on December 24, 2017 at 12:59am

Aa ok . Thanks for the info

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