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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on November 5, 2015 at 2:39pm

there is no better evidence of that, Sidney, than the book signatures themselves. They are all the same and look nothing like known JLL in person examples.  Of course, that is just this amateur's opinion.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on November 5, 2015 at 2:54pm

They aren't "all the same." They differ in ways that you would expect from authentic JLL signatures.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 5, 2015 at 3:00pm

Maybe to you, but they don't differ in ways that I would expect. 

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on November 5, 2015 at 3:11pm

Agreed - Terrier8HOF and Steve. All the book signatures look the same and written by the same hand.  They do not match any know in person signature or contract signature.  As all stated before. 

Mark

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on November 5, 2015 at 3:23pm

Should we be concerned that the Bob Dylan signed artwork isn't authentic?

Reply by roger epperson on June 4, 2014 at 1:04pm
A perfect example of how a business should be is Bob Dylan. Bob has by far the most inconsistent signature of ANY music celebrity I have ever studied.

Bob decided to market his artwork and signed harmonicas for Hohner and EVERY single signed item looks the same. They are perfect and consistent signatures on EVERY item he has sold...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 5, 2015 at 7:01pm

No. They look like Dylan signed them.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on November 5, 2015 at 7:11pm

Does the JSA authenticated 45 signature a few pages back look like JLL signed it?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 5, 2015 at 8:23pm

Which one is that?

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on November 5, 2015 at 8:41pm

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 5, 2015 at 9:03pm

That one looks like almost anyone could have signed it.

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on November 5, 2015 at 9:20pm

Does that include JLL?

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 5, 2015 at 10:50pm

If it was signed in recent years, Ballroom, I would be very surprised if JLL signed it. His recent in-person signatures are not smooth and flowing like this. And I doubt that it was signed by him years ago.

But I'm not a fan of considering this signature for an authentication comparison. It was signed super-fast, abbreviated and with a worn-out marker.

That said....

The "J" and the "y" look like the books: what I believe to be Whitten secretarials. While most y's in the books I've seen don't have an upstroke from the bottom, many y's of JLLs attributed to Whitten do. At least an attempt at one. And they have that same shape with the upstroke retracing the downstroke at first. The upstroke rarely forms a loop like most considered genuine do, or ones many believe to be signed by JLL's wife.

The Lee and Lewis don't look like ones I've seen that I believe were signed by Whitten. But as I said, this was not a carefully signed signature like the ones in the books and it was signed with a fat marker.

Ballroom, I thought that in proper authentication, you're supposed to determine if the subject person very likely signed the autograph. Not the other way around: that they could have possibly signed it.

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