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Hi:
At Steve Cyrkin's invitation, I'd like to call your attention to a signature study I've posted on my blog, Charlton Heston signature study by Steve Zarelli.
I believe I have identified the "tell" in Charlton Heston secretarial signatures, and if I am correct, the news is not good for most collectors. It appears that most Heston signed photos are secretarially signed.
Here is a synopsis:
The Theory
Photographs and other memorabilia sent to Mr. Heston's office were signed by a secretary. However, Mr. Heston did authentically sign books through-the-mail.
Real vs. Secretary
In authentic signatures, the R in "Charlton" is distinctly a lowercase "r" and less than half the height of the L. The first four letters are clearly "Char."
In secretarial signatures, the R looks much more like a lowercase "l" and is about the same height as the L. So, the first four letters appear to be "Chall."
I have attached two images to give you a small sampling.
For more details and images, please visit my blog at the link below.
I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this. I fully anticipate some resistance to the theory, because denial is always the first step. In fact, I would love to be proved wrong, because that would mean I wasn't sitting on a bunch of secretary signed photos!
By way of introduction, I have been collecting since the early 90s and I am the UACC Ethics Director.
I look forward to the discussion.
Regards,
Steve Zarelli
Tags: Charlton, Forgery, Heston, Secretary, authenticating, autograph, secretarial
Just a quick one to add to this. In my post I mentioned I gave something to my son to get signed when I met him at the Haymarket theatre in London 1999. I had a lobby card from Will Penny which my son asked Mr. Heston to sign which he graciously did. I already had another of this lobby in my collection that I had received in the early 80's from his home address after sending it to him. Top is the secreterial signature, bottom is the in person from 1999. The 'Chall' is quite clear in the secreterial as is the 'ES' that loops back on itself as it does in all my secreterial signatures. His in person tends to be more 'jagged' an 'ES' for want of a better word. I think these two very clearly show the differences between secreterial and in person....Mike.
glad to see you were healing so soon. And have you raided your kids collection, yet! I really do believe if there are any doubters and I suspect there will always be some as well as dealers and websites that will continue to sell the "dbl L" brand.
Here is another link to http://www.sportsmemorabilia.com/sports-products/charlton-heston-be... the secretarial book they had up for sale and couldn't answer my questions.
Not to mention the fopars from PSA/DNA especially the recent ones.
Well, this blew the lid off for alot of people and I suspect alor of people will just not want to believe it. Heck, I had some from ten years ago that I and others thought were fine. Not Anymore.
Great work everyone, can't wait to see the letter - Mike. I wonder if it has the "dbl L" brand or "Char" lol.
I think it provides overwhelmingly convincing evidence that "Challs" are secretarial. Too much to make them a safe buy for a collector, and that's really all you need to know.
Steve, thank you for your dedication. Rolf...you, too.
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