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Old 12-10-2021, 02:42 PM
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Far from an expert, but why does it look like two different pens were used for "Sincerely" and "Babe Ruth"?

Also, the curvature of the crossing of the "t" seems atypical.
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I’d love to help you on this. I’ve studied Ruth extensively. My gut says real; and just an extremely rushed example. But then again, the “u” is very atypical. As is the crossing of the “t”. Gun to my head: real. But too many weird things that would prevent me from purchasing it.
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Far from an expert, but why does it look like two different pens were used for "Sincerely" and "Babe Ruth"?

Also, the curvature of the crossing of the "t" seems atypical.
I think it's the same pen. There was just a greater ink flow when the signer first started writing. The "Since" is bolder, while the "rely" matches the "Babe Ruth" below it. Pretty typical for fountain pen of that era.
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Old 12-10-2021, 10:57 PM
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Thanks for your insight guys. I will relay the comments to my friend.
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I am following this thread and wonder if one could compare the word "Sincerely" to other known examples of the Babe writing that word. The word looks weird (the letters don't look to spell sincerely) to me but to the untrained the writing looks to all be from the same hand (with the pen losing ink flow as previously mentioned).

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Old 12-11-2021, 09:08 AM
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Check PSA exemplars with "Sincerely"

https://www.psacard.com/autographfac...l/babe-ruth/42

I found at least 8 with that word.
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In “sincerely” his r’s and his e’s almost always take on the same shape. And in this example they certainly do. Again, most likely real. But just some weird letter formations.
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Old 12-21-2021, 02:11 PM
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Thanks everybody for chiming in. The lady never brought the autograph back to my friend's shop.
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