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First time user, is this Harrison Ford authentic? Much appreciated

Hope everyones well, this is my first post. So I received this supposedly authentic Harrison Ford autograph for christmas. Signed during the UK premier for star wars 7 on the 16-12-15 (12-16-15 USA), came with a COA.

Any help would be much appreciated. All honesty please :)

Many thanks.

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on December 27, 2015 at 10:53am

Dan,

Honesty is really all I can give here. and I hope whoever was kind enough to get this gift for you understands and helps you to return this item.

A couple of red flags go up just looking at that COA, no company name, no contact info and no readable name for the signer of the COA.

The signature itself is as close as I have seen a forger get, but it is not Harrison's signature and not anyhing you or I would want in our collections. I am not going to go into a full blown discussion about what they did wrong, but trust me that isn't Harrison's "sit down and do a signing" autograph, nor is it his "in the streets" rushed autograph.

This is the result of someone with some degree of artistic talent trying to copy some of the known authentic Official Pix items or Topps cards,... to the best of their ability.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Limb on December 27, 2015 at 10:55am

Thanks Pete I really appreciate it. Have a good new year!

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on December 27, 2015 at 11:02am

You too, and please tell the person that gave you this gift, they did a very nice thing and they chose an autograph that would fool over 99% of Star Wars autograph collectors.

That in and of itself is pretty damn impressive.

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on December 27, 2015 at 11:15am

Premier in silver is a big red flag, he's only switched markers for people in one instance and it wasn't a premier. Premiers are very difficult, tons of people, traditionally sloppy signatures.

I'm with Pete on all the other points, COA is a joke, photos are stock photos, the signature is pretty close but the baseline of the Ford is slanted, indicative of someone copying a sample. Couple other things in the signature are off as well.