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Authenticity is Everything
Marilyn Monroe Signature Authentic?
I would love members opinions as to
the authenticity of these signed Marilyn
Monroe picture?
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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on
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It's a goulash of mixed MMs. A hodge podge, strained and reassembled unconvincingly. I saw this immediately. Good you came around.
Reply by Woody2Shoes
As many time as she wrote it correctly, I hesitate to think she would have spelled "Kisses", without the third 's'. And as if the misspelled inscription alone doesn't sink the Titanic, that achy, breaky, shaky middle of that Marilyn goes a long way to explain the whole sad story of deceit and deception. lol
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Reply by Woody2Shoes
I still don't like it, unless it's from the final, closing, erratic years, and parts of it chronologically signal to me that it's not.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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Don't beat yourself up over this. You're great on Marilyn. You've probably made fewer mistakes in the last 5 years than I've made in the last 5 days. Not everyone's like Woody. Maybe someday.....
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"Not everyone's like Woody". You are, Mr. C., you nailed this, first post, right out of the gate! I'd wager that you knew it the second you saw it, no exemplars referenced! That's not only impressive but if that's not MM expert level, I don't know what is, IMHO!
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, Woody, but when I do that I make a ton more mistakes. And I'm old. I've made a ton of mistakes taking my time. I don't have the strength to carry another ton around.
When I saw that, my first though was leaning against it. It was irregular if it was real, with a clumsy S and and other things on Marilyn particularly. But it was the inscription that convinced me it was likely not genuine. Surprisingly close but not there. But it was a judgment call. It wasn't a lock fake to me. When I heard Pauline liked it, I figured I was wrong. I'll bet on her over me on Marilyn any day.
Woody, these three Marilyn Monroes are all genuine. How many of those would you not give a second glance at?
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I had one photo in there twice, sorry. I wanted to put the autograph horizontal.
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Permalink Reply by Pauline Berry on
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Woody, it sounds like you have quite a gift visually. So you are good at lots of autos? or do you specialize in just a few?
The Monroe auto I eventually bought is, in my own opinion real, I have never had a moment's doubt after I had a good look at it. It was posted on here and no one liked it. I bought it anyway.
But I have (very recently) come to appreciate the general skepticism on this site. I need a tad more myself. I was blind-sided by a forger doing a full inscription (plus back story). Never seen that before, to be honest. They usually play it safe and just forge the name. So I believed and didn't spend time.
These single signings on the photos are crazy bad Steve, but so good. The Monroe 5 fan group, always taking polaroids and handing them straight to Marilyn to sign on the fly. These are the exception to the rule, that she only signed signed photos with inscriptions. The first one is the hardest one to say is real, but it's on that unique photo and actually I love both Ms !
Those and this one are what the signature on the River of No Return photo should have looked like, to go with the inscription. I shall kick myself a little longer. But I learned a lot. It's such an interesting hobby.
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What River of No Return photo?
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Oh sorry, that's the shot of Marilyn with the guitar, with the inscription - it's from The River of No Return movie.
I finally found the photo I wanted to compare, to her stand in on this film, Brandt Autographs must have bought it. It used to be on Ebay.
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I'm not up on her entire catalog. Just the most popular ones.
That reminded me. The other thing that set me off was the photo. I know what they're supposed to look like but it looked a bit pixelated and washed out. I thought it could be a reproduction but I didn't check it out.
Now that you told me the name of the movie I was able to google it. Here's a copy that looks more like I'd expect an original period press photo to look like:
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IMO, the green ink photo is fantastic.
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I actually would have thought the one above was real. It has a lot of her characteristics.
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Then there's the one I showed you that a teacher said his mom got in 1953 that I'm sure is real and you thought probably so. But we may be the only ones in the world who do...except for the guy who owns it.
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