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REAL Elvis autographs

There has been a lot of confusion lately about Elvis Presley autographs due to a discussion that was recently posted. Elvis is one of the hardest autographs to authenticate as he had so many styles of signatures. After 20+ years of studying his autograph even I can get fooled every once and awhile. What messes up the forger is greed. The autograph gets too consistant for Elvis and they get caught. Recently a VERY good forger popped up and fooled me and others. The good thing is before the forgeries could be sold we figured out the forgeries and put a stop to this person. As you will see in this post "Elvis was consistantly inconsistant in the way he signed and wrote". There are though things he always did that show through though. All I am going to do here is post authentic signatures. I won't be explaining them in any way, that will be for you to do to educate yourselves. I will answer some questions though if needed. Enjoy!

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Permalink Reply by DB on September 12, 2011 at 5:07am

Absolutely Altman, well said. I have simply started deleting the email notifications for the most part. There use to be a thread over in the forum entiled "friday night fights" for those engaged in point/counterpoint and more indicative of the Octagon. Although if it weren't for this threads the ANL Klowns Cyrkin fan club would have nothing to run their mouths about... Steve, just needs to go back in and delete the pugilistic ones that have no value added including some of his and once done then this one can go as well ;-)

there is actually a KennyRogers lookalike thread. Ah, the wonders of the world wide internet!

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on September 12, 2011 at 5:16am

I tried to keep it on track from the begining. After a week of BS from Greg I had to show people who he was. It's safe to do that kind of stunt with the average collector, they don't get it. I am going back to the begining of this thread and continue in a much cooler style. I hope no more hijacking of this thread is done, It's a thread about REAL Elvis autographs. Here are some more.

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on September 12, 2011 at 6:10am

Very cool, I owned it origianlly many years back. Back then I didn't have a scanner just a copy machine and that is where that came from. Both this one and the other one above came from the same guy who lived in Chicago and them himself. Note these were signed both on the same day! Glad to see it's in good hands.

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Permalink Reply by DB on September 12, 2011 at 5:24am

Roger, i was looking over in the PSA exemplars and I can't find nary a one on elvis. Since they noted he was the #1 forged celebrity (long live the king) any ideas as to why that one might not be available?

I come to the conclusion that there are just so many variations over the decades that it's best to . go to a specialist on him or have ANY TPA authenticated one validated first, by that specialist.

& I concur... we just need to clean up the thread for future readers. At some point I'm gonna steal all these signatures incase you are captured by the klown posse and held for ransom.

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on September 12, 2011 at 6:07am

I don't know how they operate or really what exemplar page you are looking at. Do they have something on their website like that?

I'm doing my best to keep this on track, it gets tough though due to hijackers.

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Permalink Reply by DB on September 12, 2011 at 7:44am

yes, it's a subscription service for collectors (or anyone else for that matter). What I found puzzeling is that the 2 Hestons (methinks I mentioned this on the heston thread) depicts both as Chars yet we have seen so many with the TPA stamp of Chall. Whenever I see authentic ones I have this bad tendency to compare and contrast to other exemplars being offered as authentic.

too often people try to sensationalize on a fopars as if that was the "truth" , Far from it as show me how many were actually number of those authenticated correctly, then how many errors and most people can draw their own conclusion. In some specific cases the parameters are reversed and we can also draw our own conclusion.

btw, I accept free authentic Elvis' when you want to dispense csome ause the collection is too overwhelming ;-)

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Permalink Reply by sling on September 12, 2011 at 2:46pm

what do you mean by clown posse?

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on September 12, 2011 at 5:24am

Roger, I personally want to "Thank You" for the FREE information you have provided here to collectors. Your input here is fascinating reading.,

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on September 12, 2011 at 9:47am

Ditto, Roger. Greatly appreciated!

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on September 12, 2011 at 9:47am

that really is hard to believe! Im not questioning whether or not they were both signed on the same day....but were they both signed by Elvis?? seriously, I know his style was very inconsistent, but if you looked at that second sig. as a stand-alone, I don't think most people would give it a second look. thats what makes this hobby so intriguing.

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Permalink Reply by kevin conway on September 12, 2011 at 5:52pm

I would be very surprised if these were passed by PSA or JSA. The thick marker makes it more difficult to analyze, but the second one doesn't match any signature study/contract or "Verified" in person example I have ever seen. Not even close. BUt, Roger would be the one to make the final call.