Roy Campanella Autos

[william_9]

Obviously, aside from the machine assisted signatures in the late 80's, he was unable to sign autographs post-accident. Perhaps the wording your friend used was misleading? It's common for authenticators to say that a signature can't be certified when it is a known secretarial signature. I think I'm correct in saying that his wife did the majority of his signing for him, even for other players at the annual Induction Ceremony that he commonly attended. He would eventually work himself back to partial use of his hands, but signing autographs were outside of his ability or were just simply embarrasssing.

I'm sure that any of the reputable authenticators would certify a genuine pre-1958 Campy.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I can assure you that both PSA and JSA have no issue in examining both pre and post-accident Campys. Some others have gone on record as saying that post-accident (device-assisted) examples are difficult to authenticate, but I really have to take the opposite stance on that argument. There are still plenty of very obvious characteristics marking the formation of the latter-day version. Also, as a result of his disability, Campy's post-accident signature was marked with unique qualities in both pen pressure and what I can only call its "spastic quality". I really have never seen a forger come close to being able to mimic all of Campy's very unique post-accident "tells".

[aaroncc]

Here is my example. I have thought about sending it to JSA. Any opinions?