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Permalink Reply by Matthew curcio on January 14, 2018 at 7:48pm

A few more and a "COA"

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Permalink Reply by Matthew curcio on January 14, 2018 at 8:06pm

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Permalink Reply by Todd Johnson on January 15, 2018 at 12:05am

Not sure about the other 2 autographs but from what I read on here, if the 'r' in Charlton looked like the 'l' following it, it was likely secretarial, which is appears so here.  Will let others chime in.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 15, 2018 at 4:18am

Heston is secretary. Harrison looks ok.

I don’t know hunter well enough to opine. 

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Permalink Reply by Matthew curcio on January 15, 2018 at 6:41am

So it was signed by his estate but his secretary did the actual signing?  

I'm no expert on autographs, what does that make an autograph?  It's not a forgery but it's also not real.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 15, 2018 at 4:24pm

It's not signed by Heston and has no value, even if the secretary was authorized to sign it.

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Permalink Reply by Matthew curcio on January 15, 2018 at 4:39pm

I don't agree with that... less certainly, but saying it has no value implies it belongs in the trash but this would be validly attached to Heston.  A outright forgery, on the other hand has no attachment to the person and has no value at all.  

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 15, 2018 at 4:43pm

I have a bunch of Heston secretary signed photos. How much would you be willing to pay me for them? :-)

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Permalink Reply by Matthew curcio on January 15, 2018 at 4:50pm

Ah... but you didn't throw them away.  I uncovered that I had bought a few forgeries and they went right in the shredder.  Now, I wouldn't knowingly buy this autograph now but i'm not feeling the urge to destroy it.   

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on January 15, 2018 at 4:54pm

They were probably retained as reference for additional secretarials and/or forgeries etc. In that way they have value.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 15, 2018 at 5:22pm

You could keep it for the authentic Harrison (and maybe Hunter). I have the same situation where I paid for Harrison at a show and added her to a secretary Heston (in the 90s before I knew better).

I have come thisclose to shredding them a number of times. Just haven't pulled the trigger. LOL  OK... maybe they have minimal value as a piece of Heston "memorabilia"... like a preprint sent by a studio, etc. But they exist in such mass numbers, it really is almost valueless.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on January 15, 2018 at 4:52pm

Something like a secretarial 1953 Gleason signed photo retains some collector value because those little signed postcards were what everyone who wrote to CBS received - there were four and folks like to complete the set. This Heston is a very different case and I agree with Steve. And the photo quality kills it. Sorry.

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