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Permalink Reply by Owen Smith on March 3, 2022 at 1:44pm

The odd thing about this is that it does look like a good Ali signature. It's the dedication that looks fake. 

Ali always signed 'To' with a capital T. I've never seen him do it any other way. And the writing of the dedicated name on the glove looks off. Also, I have not seen many dedicated gloves over the years. Stacks of signed cards, photos and Islamic leaflets, but not gloves.  

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Permalink Reply by D R To Owen Smith on March 4, 2022 at 9:23pm

Strange — the only gloves I can seem to find all have inscriptions. 

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Permalink Reply by Owen Smith To D R on March 6, 2022 at 3:38am

Hi 

I'm not sure where you are located, but I'm talking from a UK perspective. I think we see different items and if you are Stateside (I'm only guessing this), then I think you would see far more items which are dedicated. . 

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Permalink Reply by Steve on March 3, 2022 at 6:02pm

I was thinking the same thing.  The signature looks good, the inscription looks off.

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Permalink Reply by D R To Steve on March 4, 2022 at 9:18pm

My thought was that the inscription and sig looked different… almost as if the person wrote their name after it was signed?

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Permalink Reply by Richard Booth on March 5, 2022 at 1:53am

Inscription is certainly not from Ali’s hand. 

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Permalink Reply by D R To Richard Booth on March 5, 2022 at 10:08am

How about the signature?

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