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Permalink Reply by James on December 7, 2014 at 11:35am

Here is another example that sold at Christie's. This sold for $5,000 at Christie's. It says, "For Alex..." "Alex" was a wealthy donor, I believe. And a U.S. Senator at the time said that he personally saw JFK sign this after their breakfast meeting.

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Permalink Reply by James on December 7, 2014 at 11:41am

Another example. I believe "Olsson" was a Secret Service agent. Priscella Wear, JFK secretary, sent out a cover letter with this one.

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Permalink Reply by James on December 7, 2014 at 11:50am

And here, I believe Donald Carmichael was a U.S. Capitol police officer who sometimes chauffeured JFK around.

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Permalink Reply by James on December 7, 2014 at 11:57am

And finally, here is another example deemed authentic at another auction house.

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Permalink Reply by James Stone on December 19, 2014 at 6:33am

Yep, all the stuff you posted is obviously Jill Cowen. Once JFK became president he usually did a much shorter version of his signature. It kind of looked like LIN JIN Y and it usually ran together.

When he did the longer version, as in the authentic example below you can see how it differers from Cowen's version. Right fron the start His J doesn't look like a J, it looks like a L. There is a lot more speed to the signature. The Y looks different. ETC.

http://natedsanders.com/LotDetail.aspx?inventoryid=31144

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Permalink Reply by James on December 19, 2014 at 9:27am

Thanks for checking things out, James. For some reason the link won't work for me on my iPad. I'll try again later. Just to let you know, I sent you a friend request. I figured since we both like Kennedy stuff, we ought to be friends.

Anyway, if you want, you can check out the JFK I do have. There's a discussion about it in Groups: Presidential Collecting. I think it's titled, "JFK signature". He signed it on a brochure about his appearance at a high school in Kansas about two weeks before his election using his campaign style signature that he used in 1960. I know the history of it, and I live near the high school where he appeared 54 years ago; so I feel pretty strongly about it. It's pretty similar to some others that have been authenticated by PSA/DNA. At least I think I've got one good one.

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Permalink Reply by James Stone on December 21, 2014 at 11:46am

No problem. Could you link me to your JFK signed program? I can't seem to find it. Is it on this site?

I am interested because I also have a 1960 campaign program.

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Permalink Reply by James on December 24, 2014 at 5:09am

i apologize, James. I hadn't been back to this discussion since Friday, and I just now saw your reply. And I don't get the notices in my email anymore. But here is the link about my JFK:

http://live.autographmagazine.com/group/signedpresidentialbooks/for...

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Permalink Reply by Dean Raymond Hawks on January 9, 2018 at 12:39am

Just noticed this post on JFK signature on the Yousuf Karsh portrait of JFK and Jackie. Know the original story behind this very well as Earl P Hawks was my grandfather.

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Permalink Reply by James on January 12, 2018 at 1:25pm

Small world.  This was from a few years ago when I was a "newbie" collecting JFK.  I've gained much more experience in this area.  Unfortunately, this piece was indeed a secretarial signature.  I was able to get a refund, fortunately.

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