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Permalink Reply by Chad B on January 9, 2015 at 12:37pm

You mentioned an inscribed book that Roger said was authentic. I don't remember the item. Can you post it?

My opinion is they are all signed by Jerry Lee. I am taking your situation as a whole and would really doubt JLL would sign two of the items and someone else would sign the other two. Also, they all have at least some characteristics present in authentic signatures.

That being said, if I were given the signed records themselves with no other information and asked to give an opinion it would be tough. The truncated signatures are accomplished in a thick medium and a lot of detail is lost. There is less to authenticate than on the covers themselves where the signature is spread out.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 9, 2015 at 12:48pm

I also believe that all are authentic.

The signature on the “High School Confidential” sleeve is pretty interesting in the different characteristics that it includes. The “Mark” appears consistent with Mark Peterson’s signed LP. The distinctive capital “G” in “God” is consistent with previous ones we’ve seen. “Bless” is consistent with one of the TTM signatures that was presented as an example of a secretarial. Of course, we’ve seen the squiggle included with those signatures as well. The distinctive “K” in “Mark” is consistent with those from the “Whitten” pick guards. The bend in the “Y” in “Jerry” is consistent with the questioned 2002 IP signed photo from the TTM discussion. The shapes of the respective “L”s look good, and it shows the typical two different styles of “E” in “Lee”. The hook “S” in “Lewis” is another characteristic we’ve seen before, including in one of the book signatures.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on January 9, 2015 at 12:53pm

Chade - Here is the book - that Roger said was good.  Question for everyone - 

Jerry Lee signed 750 books on the title page - why would he NOT know where to sign mine.  He signed in on the inside cover on the back page.  Very strange for someone who had signed 750 books all on the title page.  

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 9, 2015 at 12:58pm

Right. And whenever someone sends multiple items to him they come back with a wide range of natural variation... Large, wild and loose signatures. He can't sign four items consistently.

Yet he signed 750 books with nearly identical, small, neat, tight, cookie cutter signatures?

Makes perfect sense. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on January 9, 2015 at 1:00pm

VERY good point Steve!

MArk

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on January 9, 2015 at 1:02pm

The "To Mark" in the book is totally different than the "To Mark" on the High School Sleeve. 

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 9, 2015 at 1:15pm

The ones I've seen don't appear to me to be "cookie cutter" signatures. Some are neater and more well-defined than others. The impression I get is that he made an effort to produce a nice, consistent signature throughout the 750 books, but the quality of the signatures varies.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 9, 2015 at 1:26pm

But he can't make four neat consistent signatures for people paying $100 a pop. But he can do it for 750 books for free?

They may not be identical copies, but they have much less variation than the other TTM signatures we can all agree are likely authentic.

Everyone has their own limits on how much disbelief they can suspend. To me, in light of what we see coming through the mail, I can't reconcile 750 very similar, neat and tight book signatures.

Permalink Reply by wascher on January 9, 2015 at 1:35pm

Does anyone remember being a kid and being made to write I will obey my parents blah blah blah 500 times?  I even had my own dedicated Bug Bunny spiral notebook and Bic pen :(   Do you remember what your sentences looked like as you progressed?  (no opinion, just something to ponder :)

-w

Permalink Reply by Null on January 9, 2015 at 1:46pm

"But he can't make four neat consistent signatures for people paying $100 a pop. But he can do it for 750 books for free?"

LOL seriously. I can't believe this is even still an argument. Don't you think if you were signing 750 books your signature would get even sloppier than your typical sig? As opposed to "Oh I'm about to sign 750 books I'm going to sign these super pretty and make sure they look absolutely nothing like my natural signature this is going to be so much fun!"

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 9, 2015 at 2:02pm

Jerry Lee Lewis's autograph has become a religion.

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 9, 2015 at 2:38pm

Here's an example from RR Auction:

and one from the books:

Are they so dissimilar?

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