Duke Snider Auto Verify

[refz]

sorry took me about a week to get a new aio printer/scanner but heres the card.

[Lordstan]

Here's mine.
It's signed pretty early.
Sorry, I don't like yours. As a qualification, I will say that I am unfamiliar whether or not he had a different signature at the very beginning of his career



Best,
Mark

[roarfrom34]

unfortunately, it doesn't look good to me either

sorry

[mr2686]

I've seen a couple of early cuts that were similiar to yours, although this one doesn't seem to have quite the slant of a lefty that he usually had.

What is it that people aren't liking about this auto? It looks awfully similar to the other example to my eye. The 1st sig was obviously "squished" to fit inside the white uniform space, but the letter formations, flow and loose dotting of the "i" look pretty consistent to me. If you drop the 2nd auto in Photoshop and compress it side to side, it looks an awful lot like the first one to me (with the exception of the S and D being a little more elaborate).

[steve B]

To me it's the vertical vs very left slant to the letters, and the huge vs small top lop on the S.

Steve B

[Bugsy]

I actually think it is ok. If you look at any of his signature model bats, the autograph matches up fairly well. Signatures don't look the same every single time and we would certainly need more than one sample for comparison. I have seen many Snider signatures with a bigger loop on the S. The slant completely depends on how he held it when he signed it. Besides, the only person to sign more than Duke was Bob Feller. I don't think many would be motivated to fake that sig, let alone ruin a card in the process doing it.

Chris

[Bugsy]

Here are a few links to earlier Snider signature model bats:

http://www.sports-memorabilia-museum...ider-bat.shtml

http://www.scpauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=15189

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/...2006/1124.html