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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 30, 2022 at 6:30am

You will get more traction if you add the name in the title. More responses as well. 

Permalink Reply by LinF on July 30, 2022 at 7:45am

The whole point is, I don't want to put the name up because of confirmation bias. If I don't get much response I'll put the name up later.

Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 30, 2022 at 6:49am

what is confirmation bias?  thats a new one.

Permalink Reply by LinF on July 30, 2022 at 7:43am

Tendency to consider it might be who I was told it probably was, rather than look at it objectively.

Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 30, 2022 at 8:35am

I'd say many people won't get past this initial inquiry.  I looked at it and have no idea except it looks like something military.... but can't be sure.  Most have no time for a ground up guessing game with absolutely no hint of any direction except the year 1942.  Best of luck.  

Permalink Reply by LinF on July 30, 2022 at 8:52am

It's not meant to be a guessing game. I was looking for objective opinions that weren't tempered by people knowing who I was originally told it was. However. I'll now repost with the name I was given.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 30, 2022 at 10:46am

It makes NO diffrence to me if I know the name or not - it still going to be run through the same severe strainer of authentication, just as if it had PSA papers. I note the writer has had trouble with 3 words and there are seemingly odd pen lifts. Two words are quite clunky and uncomfortably written. European origins perhaps. Military yes. 

Permalink Reply by LinF on July 30, 2022 at 10:52am

The person the pass was for wrote it and then got it signed as is usual.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 30, 2022 at 10:49am

You are also making assumptions about people, and where is the name? It's been an hour. Apparently you needed to be told who it was yourself, yes?

Permalink Reply by LinF on July 30, 2022 at 11:00am

I posted it under Is this autograph real. I had paid no attention to the signature and would have had no idea who it was if asked. I was then told by an eminent military historian that it was almost certainly Field Marshal Montgomery. Albeit written in a hurry, so not quite the same as his usual signature. If you look at my post in is it real, I've listed a couple of reasons as to why it may be real.  I'm just looking for further opinions on it as I am not even remotely an expert in this field. I am not making assumptions about people it is a fact that no one at all is immune to confirmation bias though, the more experience in the subject one has, the less the bias.

Yes, it is European [though written while serving in Iraq in WW11, and it is military. It's a leave pass for a British army soldier.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 30, 2022 at 12:22pm

This can be picked up here.

This thread now serves no purpose I can see so I am closing it.