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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on April 22, 2019 at 12:50pm

Looks like one of those fabricated/reproduction baseballs.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on April 22, 2019 at 3:05pm

I'd like to take Sherman and Peabody's or Brian and Stewie's Wayback Machine to ask Lou why he misspelled his last name. I can interpret it only two ways. Either Gehig or Gehrg (with the 'i' folded into the 'g', which I've never before seen). There's a missing spike in there.

As Chris pointed out, no good, IMO as well.

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Permalink Reply by mike bloom on April 23, 2019 at 2:03pm

Actually, my question had nothing to do with the authenticity of the autograph, since I know its real
due to 2 facts.PSA-SIMILAR1.jpg
#1 I have an loa from JSA
#2 As you can see in the attached image, psa has authed
a similar signature to my ball AND they have rendered
a Likely genuine on their quick opinion.

MY ONLY QUESTION posed was whether it is possible that this
Gehrig signature was penned with a Fountain pen.

Thanks for your time

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 23, 2019 at 3:17pm

+1 presentation is unnatural.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on April 22, 2019 at 3:08pm

looks like a copy

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on April 22, 2019 at 3:11pm

One of the reasons that I don't opine as much as I used, and it is a pet-peeve of mine here, is that I wish the OP's would post photos and not attachments.

You can click the image with your mouse to get a closer view.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on April 22, 2019 at 3:16pm

Needless to say, I've never seen that color/texture thread on a 78+ year old ball. (Unless the color balance is off).

Also, no perceptible 'u'. The 'o' arcs right out, without coming back to the baseline for the 'u', and then up and into the loop for the "G" without any perceptible 'u' being formed, again, not typical for Gehrig.

It doesn't look stamped, so my feeling is that it's a forgery on a "not quite old enough" baseball.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on April 22, 2019 at 3:47pm

does this look familiar?

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on April 22, 2019 at 4:08pm

The orientation is off, so they're not being, or have been, the byproduct of mass-production (inked prior to assembly). Without much deviation other than tiny subtleties probably due to unique surface imperfections of each baseball; is it Autopen?

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Permalink Reply by mike bloom on April 23, 2019 at 2:25pm

wow! Somebody obviously made a copy of my signature
onto a baseball. But yours is obviously a facsimile copy of
my original signature, since if you look at yours
and mine side by side, you can see where your copy
does not have the ink fading and "real signature" look that
my signature has. Also, the color ink on yours clearly
looks facsimile. My is quite a different ink color
than what is found on facsimile baseballs (such as yours)

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Permalink Reply by mike bloom on April 23, 2019 at 2:15pm

Actually, my question had nothing to do with the authenticity of the autograph, since I know its a real
autograph and a real vintage baseball due to 3 facts.

#1 I have an loa from JSA

#2 As you can see in the image in the URL BELOW, psa has authed a similar signature to my ball AND they have rendered a Likely genuine on their quick opinion of my gehrig ball.

www.collectiblesouvenirs.ca/psasimilar1.jpg

#3 As seen in the URL BELOW, this is a William Harridge stamped baseball

www.collectiblesouvenirs.ca/mygehrig2.jpg

MY ONLY QUESTION posed in my opinion request was whether it is possible that this Gehrig signature was penned with a Fountain pen.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on April 23, 2019 at 2:24pm

Mike, since you have it in your possession, and we don't, you have the advantage of personal examination, so why don't you tell us.

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