[Runscott]

I deleted the content of this post, but to make it useful, as opposed to just wasting empty space.....

The two Gehrigs are completely different forms of his signature - not two signatures that look basically alike other than one horrible letter.

I don't know enough about Gehrig signatures to state that the 'quickly written' one is good, but I'm sure it is, since you say it is, and because it makes total sense that when someone writes quickly, their handwriting will look different.

In the case of the Shockers, I DO know which one is the fake. And it's not just 'single letter analysis'. You've seen my posts about autographs, and you know that isn't the way I think - my first post regarding the 'green' ball listed several characteristics that had nothing to do with single letters. In the 'Shocker' example, I chose the 'b' to illustrate a point about the way people write, and about the way they do not write.