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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 Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 30, 2012 at 1:00pm

He consigned in 2009 too?

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Permalink Reply by MJ-fan-1965 on December 30, 2012 at 1:07pm

No idea, I'm saying "If they are all his" lol. :) BTW, I did find golden tickets this morning with no sig, I can't find them now though, so its strange that these were signed. I guess I didn't really look at it strange when I saw them without sigs until now.

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Permalink Reply by MJ-fan-1965 on December 30, 2012 at 1:46pm

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/neverland-valley-ranch-michae... Heres the ones without a sig. I did find that it was weird though that these also looked like they had numbers written in? (like the other ones are specifically printed). In any case, these were the unsigned ones.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 30, 2012 at 2:05pm

Interesting.

Permalink Reply by Helen on December 30, 2012 at 1:09pm

Never. I'd be very very surprised if this was genuine. Looks marginally better than Bush.

I think TM is right, it's a secretarial. Good to know what the secretarial for that time was.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 30, 2012 at 2:06pm

It could be. We don't have enough to confirm that yet, though.

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Permalink Reply by Helen on December 30, 2012 at 3:04pm

No, you're right. I'll keep my eyes peeled for that style, though.

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on December 26, 2012 at 6:50am

Wow,

A lot has happened since I went away for few days. It's unreal how many bad items that were sold. This is the first I have seen of these autographs. I never look at Juliens catalogs so I never have seen these. You all are correct that these new (or older) autographs are not authentic either. Darren was also made aware of the MJ secretarial signatures in the past.

Here is a note I just got in to authenticate that shows how Michael really wrote "Michael Bush"

This should pretty much clear up things.

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Permalink Reply by TeamMichael777 on December 26, 2012 at 10:44pm

Roger where did this note come from Plz? I would like to see the rest of it.

I have repeatedly stated Bush was only the wardrobe person, look at what this note states. "designer" is something Bush dreamed up after the fact, something i guess he always fantasized about, but was not!!

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Christine on December 28, 2012 at 5:38am

Great point. It seems Michael knew that Tompkins was the designer, Bush the sewer and wardrobe man. (I'm sure I'm being much more harsh on Bush than MJ would have ever been able to be - but MJ saw the truth).