Joplin real?

Someone posted an inquiry to this on Facebook today and thought I’d ask here for them. Apparently quite pricy to authenticate, per posts.

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Permalink Reply by Todd Johnson on May 31, 2021 at 8:54pm

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on May 31, 2021 at 9:22pm

This looks real to me. Here’s another signed example of this photo.

I moved this to the Janis forum.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Adams on May 31, 2021 at 9:43pm

A most interesting signature.

My personal feeling is that this is highly probable to be not by the hand of JJ. It's very similar though but the angle for one is wrong in my humble opinion. So I have some concerns.

Her signature is one that can be very easily copied/faked which is problematic. Whilst it maybe genuine as suggested by another member I would tread very carefully with this one. One would need to carefully examine the signature and promo photo along with obtaining credible provenance.

Just my thoughts.

Regards,

Mark

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Permalink Reply by Todd Johnson on May 31, 2021 at 9:50pm

The background posted on it by owner (presuming they own it), it was sent to a music magazine by Grossman Glotzer to promote Janis circa 1968. They had also seen similar one on PSA page, perhaps the same one BallroomDays posted if that was the source?

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on May 31, 2021 at 9:54pm

The image I posted is from RR Auction. Yes, it’s the same one from the PSA page.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Adams on May 31, 2021 at 9:57pm

Do you have a picture of the reverse?

Regards,

Mark

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Permalink Reply by Todd Johnson on May 31, 2021 at 11:44pm

It's already framed they said.

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Juice on June 1, 2021 at 8:07am

What are they asking for it?

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Permalink Reply by Todd Johnson on June 1, 2021 at 8:49am

They are not selling yet, looking to authenticate first, going to Houston so sounds like TriStar to me. I do not know them myself, was only getting opinions.