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STUDY: Jerry Lee Lewis - TTM real or not real

Steve asked me to start a new thread since some were having a lot of issues with regards to whether or not the through the mail autographs of Jerry Lee Lewis are real or not. I will post some examples of what we have been getting recently and some know in person examples. These TTM signatures are not cheap. You have to pay $50 for them to his box office box. The question is are they real or not. Roger has said that he has never seen Mr. Lewis sign this way and it looks to perfect - like a woman's signature.

Please post your thoughts here and examples.

thanks

Mark

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 26, 2015 at 4:58pm

Ballroom,

Pulling writing from an image in Photoshop is done by selecting the image from the inside of the writing to where it meets the background. Then it's cleaned up by hand and a smoothing tool. If there were similar streaky areas in the autograph, they would pull out similarly, but they wouldn't create new ones. What you find most often are edges that don't pull out cleanly from the background, because the pixels on the edge are too close to the color of the background ones.

I pulled the autograph from Mark Peterson's photo using the Magic Wand tool at a tolerance of 32. Here it is:

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Permalink Reply by Chad B on May 26, 2015 at 1:01pm

This sounds reasonable. What do you think the answer is for the matching signatures?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 26, 2015 at 1:08pm

Mark Peterson's would probably have to be inspected in person to know for sure, Chad. We could start with very high resolution, sharp scans of his piece and one of the reproduction CDs. That may tell us what we need to know.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on May 26, 2015 at 2:18pm

Mark sent his LP to the mailing address and it came back signed to him. He also received a signed photo. He posted a pic of the signed LP here for opinions after which the CD appeared with a repro of the signature and inscription on the cover.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on May 26, 2015 at 3:29pm

What is your opinion on the autograph itself Steve?? Authentic or not?

Mark

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 26, 2015 at 3:35pm

From what I've gleaned from these discussions, Mark, I doubt that JLL signed it. But that's not the most interesting thing here. It's why would they take the signature from Mark's piece, even from a high-quality, high-resolution image, and remove his signature and crop out the background?

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Permalink Reply by wascher on May 26, 2015 at 9:46pm

Or were they both made the same way - by some sort of printing like an autopen type machine?

Michael Jackson autopen sigs often had To (insert name here) and then the autopen sig. The inscription can change and still have the original signature?