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Elvis Presley help again

Ok this is a very beautiful and rare photo from his bahamas holidays in 1969.

As far as I know only few photos are availble from that trip.

It has been discussed here on this Elvis forum also : http://www.elvis-collectors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=63846

A rare photo and as a bonus signed on the back, if real = a great piece of Elvis history.

But the question is if its real, is it? Printed?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 28, 2012 at 2:48pm

Did you buy it, Eddie? Sorry, I hope I'm wrong but I would be surprised on this one. If you bought it, hopefully you can hold off on paying for it until you have it checked out.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 28, 2012 at 10:07am

BTW...Happy Birthday, Eddie!

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Permalink Reply by Eddie Anderson on January 28, 2012 at 10:19am

Thank you Steve, Thanks for remembering me!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 28, 2012 at 12:55pm

I just checked the Elvis site link you posted and found another one like it:

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Permalink Reply by Eddie Anderson on January 28, 2012 at 1:57pm

I also saw that, signature is not good.

But the candid is stuning :)

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Permalink Reply by Eddie Anderson on January 28, 2012 at 2:00pm

I hope Roger will come by this thread and share his opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Barry S on January 28, 2012 at 3:03pm

Click on his add right here on the right.

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Permalink Reply by Barry S on January 28, 2012 at 3:29pm

Is it rare that it is a sharpie? I know they were made in the 60s and Elvis died in 77 but is it common to see Elvis sigs signed in Sharpie?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 28, 2012 at 4:12pm

I think it's a felt-tip and not a Sharpie, but no, that wouldn't be common back then. Ballpoint pens were.

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Permalink Reply by Eddie Anderson on January 28, 2012 at 5:30pm

This might also be a sharpie?

Its offred by a UAAC RD.

Compare this one.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 28, 2012 at 6:34pm

Eddie,

I think the pen on the Polaroid and this one is actually a Papermate Flair. Flairs were the first mass-produced felt-tip pens (Sharpies are markers) and came out in the later 60s. I just checked: 1966. So they weren't as common as ballpoint pens in 1969 when the photo you were interested was supposedly signed.

Arundel Gallery doesn't saw when this one was signed, but something caught my attention in their description, pasted here:

"(1935 - 77) Wonderful 7x5`` Colour Kodak Enlarged photograph of a young Elvis in a white open collared shirt looking away from the camera. The photograph has been signed clearly across the image by Elvis in black ink. A fine example, hard to find in this form. The tear shown in the image is in the original photograph from which this was enlarged from. It is NOT in this photo." [my bolding]
http://autographs.co.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?dcurrency=AUD&cart_id...

We need a long-time photographer to pipe in on this, but in Elvis's pre-scanner day, making enlargements or even copies of prints was a lot of work. You had to take a photo of the photo and then produce prints from the negative. It's surprising that someone wouldn't repair the torn photo before doing that.

It's equally surprising they didn't have the negatives. You'd think that the person would treat any negatives of Elvis like gold.