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Permalink Reply by Joe W. on August 30, 2021 at 1:49pm

Great actor! Yes, this is the real deal, IMO.

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on August 30, 2021 at 2:05pm

Thanks for the look Joe W.

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Permalink Reply by Steve on August 30, 2021 at 3:19pm

Looks good to me.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on August 31, 2021 at 7:59am

That's most certainly an authentic Paul Newman ----- and an earlier one to boot!

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on August 30, 2021 at 11:36pm

What happened to Bill?

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on August 31, 2021 at 8:04am

To use gangster parlance, they rubbed poor Bill out. 

Seriously though, I wonder if someone wasn't trying to make an inscribed autograph an "uninscribed" one and realized after attempting to cleanly erase the name itself, the "To" obviously wasn't going to work either and they quit. 

We've probably all seen this done before.  It seems to really only work  with felt tip dedications on glossy photos.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on August 31, 2021 at 10:24am

That's exactly what happened. A botched and aborted dedication removal. 

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on August 31, 2021 at 2:53pm

Steve, In this case it is the sentiment that also proves the autograph. When you look at autographs of Apollo astronauts that have sentiments or inscriptions, don't they also validate the autograph? Sometimes it is the smallest thing that will validate the entire autograph.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on August 31, 2021 at 11:34am

I did not mean "what happened to Bill" literally - anyone can see what was done. I just see it as a problem. I don't like edited items.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on August 31, 2021 at 1:24pm

That was just my (feeble) attempt at humor saying that, like gangsters, someone had "rubbed Bill out". 

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on August 31, 2021 at 1:25pm

I got it :)

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Permalink Reply by David Lewis on August 31, 2021 at 11:26am

Since all agree this is a real Newman, the most important part of this inscribed Newman autograph is the salutation. As I have posted before the key to knowing his autograph is the additional script handwriting when present. I think he connects and disconnects words like no other. Notice the laid down "s" in best and the last "s" in wishes. Yet the first "s" in wishes stands tall and not really connected…..except to the dot on the "i" ….another clue? When it comes to Newman the more handwriting  you have as exemplars the better .

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