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Opinions on this Lou Gehrig?
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Permalink Reply by JK on
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Interesting. This latest example looks more consistent between the message and address.
The original card looks as though the message and address were not done at the same time (ink flow/boldness) but could either have been done by different people or the same person, at different times (pre-written messages with addresses added later).
And if the top one is fake, is the postmark also fake? Or did someone start with an original mailed postcard that did not have a message and then add one to match letter styles? So much to consider....
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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Cards can be "washed". I've seen it a lot with supposed Titanic postcards.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on
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This slabbed example has a smoothness and flow the questioned example does not have. The questioned example has a bit of a ragged and hesitant feel based on what I can see in the relatively small image.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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Bryan,
If you send that to Beckett for an online opinion it almost certainly will be shown to Steve Grad. Grad is the world's best vintage baseball authenticator in my opinion, and in the opinions of many others.
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Think about this from a logical perspective...
* What are the odds Gehrig is going to write that long dedication on a postcard and NOT personalize it?
* The card was mailed from New Mexico on December 17. Would Gehrig be in NM? And if he was, would he be answering fan mail?
I'd be surprised if this was real. In my opinion it's more likely this is an "item of convenience." In other words, a cheap post card from a flea market the forger used because it was around at the time Gehrig **could** have signed it.
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Likely could be. And for $15 or so they can find out.
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+1
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The NM chapter of the ALS Association did not open until 1999.
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That's funny - I read it as NH, not NM. But I can see an NM also if I look for it.
If it's NH it could be North Stratford.
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Definitely an M.
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But there is a North Stratford in NM.
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Gehrig and Ruth were on a barnstorming tour in the western US in 1927-28.
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