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Topic: Help with Jim Lovell autograph on bookplate
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em8g16
Member Posts: 21
From: Spain
Registered: Dec 2017
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posted 01-05-2018 04:51 AM
   
I have found this signed book online, could you tell me if it is authentic or just a fraud/autopen? Thank you! |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 01-05-2018 06:46 AM
While I can't offer an opinion on the autograph itself, I did find this press release that verified Capt. Lovell was to be the keynote speaker at the conference noted on the bookplate, if that's of any help. |
Steve Zarelli
Member Posts: 731
From: Upstate New York, USA
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 01-05-2018 08:15 AM
This is authentic. |
em8g16
Member Posts: 21
From: Spain
Registered: Dec 2017
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posted 01-05-2018 09:14 AM
Thank you! |
dwager
Member Posts: 59
From: Augusta, GA
Registered: Sep 2014
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posted 01-05-2018 11:00 AM
To add another angle to your original question (possibly unnecessarily), I have a Lovell signature on a chart obtained at Kennedy Space Center in person and it looks just like your book signature. It is, however, different from the one I obtained on a photograph the previous year from Novaspace. When he signed the chart, he did it a little hurriedly... I assumed that was the cause of the variation. 
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Mike_The_First
Member Posts: 436
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2014
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posted 01-06-2018 12:06 AM
quote:
Originally posted by em8g16:
I have found this signed book online...
This raises (what I think is) an interesting question: were there any astronauts who, upon leaving NASA, acquired an autopen machine for their private sector office?Some, like Bill Anders and Frank Borman, did go into fairly big corporate jobs where an autopen machine wouldn't necessarily have been out of place, and a lot of the others maintained personal offices, generally with a modest staff at their disposal. |
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