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Has there ever been a nicer, more humble, more fan friendly superstar than Johnny Cash?
Johnny was the Babe Ruth of Country Music—the top-ranking Country artist of all time and the most loved. And Johnny loved his fans as much as they love him. So while like the Babe, Cash signed untold numbers of autographs, the supply could never meet demand...and probably never will.
Fans who couldn't meet Cash in person often requested autographs through the mail. The common belief is that he personally autographed those requests. But between his demanding touring schedule and later, his failing health and vision, it seems impossible that he could have signed even half of the mail he received.
A growing number of collectors and dealers now believe that many if not most Johnny Cash through the mail autographs were secretarial. We want to see if we can identify any secretarial styles, and at the same time build a reference collection of no-question genuine Cash exemplars to help identifying forgeries.
Are There Johnny Cash Secretarials?
If So, How Do We Identify Them?
Help Find Out!
You can be an important part of the study in three ways:
With your help, we can identify Cash secretarials if they're out there. Over time this should increase the value of genuine Johnny Cash autographs, and help protect future fans and collectors against autographs that aren't authentic.
Once we finish this phase of the study, we'll go on to identifying genuine Johnny Cash autographs from forgeries.
Let's go!
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I hear you.
LOL...
I struggled for a while, but you eventually get to a point where something "clicks" and you can see the difference. Once I knuckled down with Mantle, it didn't take long. I'm getting there with Cash. You just need to see a lot of exemplars. It'll never happen with only seeing a few.
:-)
We really need to do more side-by-side studies that make it easier to compare genuine/secretarial/forgeries/etc.
Agree. Scrolling through pages of threads with everything mixed together is tough.
A good moderator would consolidate everything into one easy to see graphic with a real column, secretary column and fake column. ;-)
Now get on that, will ya? lol
Zippy,
Congratulations on your new role as moderator.
LOL
You couldn't pay me enough!!
Don't blame you zip.
That's not an issue Zippy. It's not a paying gig.
Brenda- Nice addition to the collection!
Thanks JJ, and thanks to a wonderful poster here who pointed it out to me!
I'm glad you got what you were looking for Brenda and everyone here seems to agree. Great job and nice family too. That autograph will be going to a good home.
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