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Permalink Reply by goodcat on March 11, 2018 at 9:38pm

I personally don't like it and it doesn't resemble mine.

This one has flow problems among other issues

But hopefully others will comment

Do you have a story behind it including year of sig?

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Permalink Reply by Alan Waters on March 11, 2018 at 10:08pm

A  friend and I were going through binders that belonged to an autograph collector who is now in autograph Heaven. 

I came across this and wondered . . .

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Permalink Reply by goodcat on March 11, 2018 at 10:12pm

maybe it's legit as it does have good traits, but has some bad traits that make me not like it. I don't like the overlapping "r" and "i" for starters. And that slash above is a trait I've seen in a forgery.

But it could be from his later stages in life too when his hand wasn't so graceful like his feet 

But don't take my word as gospel truth please. 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 12, 2018 at 1:07am

Alan, I agree with Goodcat. This does not resemble Fred Astsire’s writing to me. 

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Permalink Reply by goodcat on March 12, 2018 at 1:13am

thank goodness you replied Steve.

I was over thinking this one

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Permalink Reply by Alan Waters on March 12, 2018 at 9:50am

Thank you both !

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