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Permalink Reply by Karsten on March 25, 2019 at 3:39pm

I am feeling not comfortable with it. Have my doubts.

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Permalink Reply by Don Webster on March 25, 2019 at 5:59pm

I would pass on this.

Like Karsten says above - not inspired by what I see.

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Permalink Reply by Gilbert Laurent on March 26, 2019 at 5:10am

Can you explane why please. Here is more photographs of the item and provenance. Thank you. 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on March 26, 2019 at 7:09am

Its kind of atypical, especially the El in Elvis.  When people tell stories like this you never know the full details.  Did she see it signed in front of her or did someone bring the photo into his suite and come back with it signed?  (very common in the Elvis world) . These small details are never 100% known.  I personally wouldnt feel comfortable with this unless a Roger Epperson or Rich Consola give their opinions. 

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 26, 2019 at 7:29am

+1 esp re nebulous stories.

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Permalink Reply by Karsten on March 26, 2019 at 8:24am

Steve is right in my opinion too. Don‘t like the „El“ and the „P“ as well. Most of all the flow is to smoothy and soft. IMO Elvis didn‘t have in 1973 that flow in his signature. Roger Epperson is a good idea. Good luck. 

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 25, 2019 at 5:57pm

Me too but a better scan would be helpful - to speak from something like this is not...desirable. Newer collectors seeing opinions formed by images like these is probably not helpful.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 26, 2019 at 6:45am

Thanks for the better images. Let's see if anything changes.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy on March 26, 2019 at 1:58pm

IMHO... - it's not authentic; wrong shapes/size, atypical angle and many other things. At the least I wouldn't buy it... But it's just my opinion.

And honestly, I don't like any Elvis autographs signed in felt-tip pen/marker. I've seen a felt-tip pen signatures only in contracts/documents [there's only a few authentic documents and maybe a couple of contracts].

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