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Permalink Reply by KaiMi on October 17, 2023 at 1:05am

I'm not too familiar with Chaney (senior, I guess?), but the ink looks astonishingly fresh for someone who died in 1930.

See what others say.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 17, 2023 at 8:17am

That is Jr.. Sr. is below.

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Permalink Reply by Robby93 on October 17, 2023 at 8:32am

Looks like Jr's is spot on, to my uneducated eyes!

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on October 17, 2023 at 9:20am

Robby - Read Eric's initial opinion below.  I'm in agreement with his description, as you can see.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on October 17, 2023 at 8:31am

I'm not quite convinced this is an authentic Chaney Jr. in the original post.   That one seems very carefully executed by someone who knows his signature and is getting the fundamentals right....but not quite natural.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 17, 2023 at 8:57am

That is the feeling I got. It appears slow, self aware and uncomfortable

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on October 17, 2023 at 9:07am

Righto...All three of those are good, descriptive words for the original image on this post.

It certainly appears "off".... and even more so looking closely at it.  I'd take a pass on it.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 17, 2023 at 9:23am

The baseline is also atypical. Pass here as well.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on October 17, 2023 at 9:29am

Yep... And aside from the rather florid letters "L", "C" and "y", all of the others letters look so scrunched...and "dainty".

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Permalink Reply by Robby93 on October 17, 2023 at 9:32am

Thank you both!

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 17, 2023 at 9:51am

Most welcome Robby93.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on October 17, 2023 at 1:48pm

There are some other members here who know Chaney's autograph well, I believe.   Maybe they'll see this and give us further opinions on the OP.

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