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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 5, 2019 at 6:39am

Hopefully Scott Paul will see this. I need like a bat signal or something ;)

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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on April 5, 2019 at 6:55am

I know the two index cards the yellow being from part of a well known collection and currently owned by yours truly.  The white card also a well known TTM collection.  Two things that differ slightly is the "T" in "To" however I have seen another good exemplar that has it exactly the same as the photograph.  The stacking of the name is a bit unusual but I believe it is merely because of how he started the inscription and he did not want to run the name over the image. Overall I would say I am comfortable with the signature.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 5, 2019 at 7:07am

Hi Scott,

Thank you for your thoughts and observations :) I am also very comfortable with it. The yellow index was helpful. Here is a "t" as you mentioned I believe - the most I could grab of it. This exemplar also looks good with mine:

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 5, 2019 at 7:12am

Once again dedications/inscriptions are useful. Here "Best wishes"...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 5, 2019 at 8:09am

Another example of the "to" Scott mentioned.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 5, 2019 at 10:32am

This about as good as I am going to get with period exemplars.

Click for full image - additional comments welcome:

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 9, 2019 at 7:35pm

Any other opinions on this last set of period exemplars with the SP I am after (marked "?")? That particular "O" in "Oakland" can be seen in the comparisons above this, vertically, in the middle - the b/w SP in purple fountain.

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