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Topic: 261095631651: Apollo 9 crew-signed litho
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DChudwin
Member Posts: 1096
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 09-14-2012 10:13 PM
   
What do you think of these? Looks like forgeries to me. |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 09-15-2012 12:05 AM
My impression as well. I have been watching this for a couple of days. Check out his other item a genuine Jen Ivin. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 09-15-2012 05:46 AM
Did you notice that McDivitt signed as "Apollo 10 CDR"? |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 09-15-2012 06:01 AM
It is Apollo 9 (IX), but the signatures? Jim McDivitt nearly always signs in green ink doesn't he? |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 09-15-2012 06:23 AM
I think it was common for Jim McDivitt to sign in green ink when he was at NASA but since then any colour goes. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-15-2012 06:27 AM
Here again, just like his Irwin offereing, all are bogus in their signatures and inscriptions, just from my own opinion. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 09-15-2012 10:22 AM
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Originally posted by Rick Mulheirn:
I think it was common for Jim McDivitt to sign in green ink when he was at NASA but since then any colour goes.
Most (if not all) of the vintage McDivitt stuff from the 60s is not signed in green ink. The green ink signatures came later. Having said that, it does nothing to legitimize the piece up for discussion. It's an obvious forgery from a seller who apparently has an endless supply of suspect pieces. (The seller used to go under other names, such as "rockride," before being shut down.) |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 750
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 09-15-2012 10:35 AM
I sent McDivitt a Space Shots card back in the 90's and he sent it back signed in black ink. |
DChudwin
Member Posts: 1096
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 09-15-2012 01:23 PM
I messaged the seller that the Apollo 9 signatures were forgeries. His reply:
"Thnx 4 the last minute drive-by!"Cross atomsmasher3249 off my sellers list. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 09-15-2012 03:52 PM
Rick is right. Jim will sign in green if asked, and a green pen is handy.He only used green while at NASA, so at first glance, you could tell memos came from the Program Manager, and was important. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 09-16-2012 10:43 AM
McDivitt used green ink also after his leaving NASA, and pretty much through the point in time where he stopped signing through the mail at all.The eBay lot has been pulled from ebay in the meantime, by the way... |
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