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Michael Jackson Signing Styles in Julien's Tompkins and Bush Sale

On December 2, Julien's Auctions is selling The Collection of Tompkins and Bush. The collection contains 465 lots of Michael Jackson memorabilia, 287 of them autographed.

Michael Bush and the late Dennis Tompkins were Michael Jackson's costume designers for 25 years, during Jackson's most successful period. They were the consignors of the signed Thriller jacket that Julien's sold for $1,800,000 in June 2011.

Almost all of the autographs in the Tompkins and Bush sale are a variation I'm not familiar with. I've only been looking at Jackson's autograph for a few years, though, and we have members here who have collected him for decades, so I'd appreciate your input and exemplars.

If you know Michael Jackson's autograph well, please look at a few images below from the auction and let me know what you think. Even better, browse the auction and upload any similar examples you have: http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/77/

Julien's is the world's premier auction house for Michael Jackson memorabilia, so they would know his autograph better than most of us. I'm just surprised I haven't seen this style before.

Thanks for your help.

Tags: 2012, Julien's, auction, michael jackson, tompkins and bush

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Christine on November 29, 2012 at 7:15pm

Here is another real MJ autograph to add to our inventory (arsenal).

I'm fairly sure that I found this on eBay listing some time ago (within the last 3 years).

Here is some of the info I collected on it:

Signed 8x10 color picture of the late "King of Pop," Michael Jackson. He is pictured with his award-winning cinematographer Joseph M. Wilcots and Wilcots' wife and son. Wilcots, was cinematographer for the groundbreaking "Roots" mini-series of the 1970's, worked on several of Michael Jackson's music videos, tours, and related projects. Mr. Wilcots was also the first African American to join the International Cinematographers Guild in 1967. Joseph Wilcots passed away in January of 2010. The photo is inscribed by Jackson to Wilcots' wife Annette.

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Permalink Reply by JPC3342 on November 29, 2012 at 7:32pm

1000 percent authentic and that's the old style MJ graph he stopped giving later on in his career.

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Christine on November 29, 2012 at 7:59pm

Exactly. He used that circle in his Michael "i" when he was a teenager, I used to think only up until the Thriller era until I saw this from the Bad era.

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Permalink Reply by Justin on November 30, 2012 at 10:39am

ahhh lovely family shot.. just beautiful. yet this picture makes me sad. JOE WILCOTS was someone that really had Michael's back.. one of the kindest sweetest, sweetest people ever in MJ's team.

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Christine on November 30, 2012 at 11:08pm

Yes thank you Justin for talking about that. All of the true people in Michael's life who would have protected him from the evil ones were removed, cut-off, separated from him. You can see in this photo how at peace MJ is with the Wilcots family. :'(

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Permalink Reply by BreakOfDawn on November 29, 2012 at 8:44pm

Yes Wendy I was referring to the white Indian tunic from Bad era.
That one was sold at Giota Have It then again at Julien's.
Yet Ed Kosiniski did not identify that as one of the items that were the same consignor at both auctions, meaning there would be two Indian Tunucs. I find that IMPOSSIBLE to believe.

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Christine on November 29, 2012 at 9:24pm

I do too Sandy. Yet I do believe it was the same consignor..

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 30, 2012 at 12:00am

I made a small correction to my opening of this discussion. There are 287 lots of autographs in the sale, not 294. The search for "signed" displayed 7 lots that weren't autographed. I didn't verify the count until tonight.

There are over 300 autographs total in the sale though. One lot has 9 signed albums.

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Permalink Reply by JPC3342 on November 30, 2012 at 6:35am

EVERYONE stop with this Julien-Bush auction…..We all know all the autograph items are fake and i wouldn't be surprised the worn outfits are just back up outfits Michael didn't even use as well. SMH

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Permalink Reply by MJ-fan-1965 on November 30, 2012 at 7:19am

Well considering this whole thread is about the Auction/fake sigs, I'm not sure why everyone should "stop". There are several days left to get the word out about the auction and to try to make people aware of the fraudulent items so that they are pulled (just the fraudulently signed items). The more people who send in their own autographs showing differences, spread the word about this thread so others can do comparisons for themselves, and get more expert opinions the better. WE know they are fake... but not everyone is on board in the public community. I am not an expert and was able to spot some really obvious issues just based on one letter. (yes there are a lot of issues, the slant of the writing, the fluidity, the style of writing etc). But I had no clue and wouldn't have questioned the items without coming here to read the threads. I send people in here to read so they understand what is happening. Some people think its just the "fan"atics trying to stop the sale of MJ items.... its not.