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Topic: How's your autograph?
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mensax
Member Posts: 861
From: Virginia
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 08-06-2003 07:33 AM
   
Am I the only one who's signature has changed since collecting autographs? Does anyone else take a parting glance at their signature before sending it off? Maybe, I'm the only one...I have noticied that mine seems to lose another letter every year... and there seems to be more and more "flair" added to it. I call this "Neil syndrome". Noah |
Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-06-2003 09:17 AM
When is the last time you've seen a hand-written letter. They are beginning to become collectors items. This is the keyboard generation and with online banking, most of us don't even have to sign our checks any more. I've noticed my own handwritting is starting to degrade. I guess we don't practice it as much as we used to. I think too that we don't even take the time to make a clear signature even though we have the time. Everybody is in a hurry! Do they still make kids in school practice their letters the way I did in the early sixties? One page of a's, one page of b's...Did you ever notice how easily an astronaut or sports person signs something? They have the motion of their signature in their mind to the point that they don't even have to look at what they're signing! If my collectable is not a photo of the person, sports or space, I find I need to have a written description attached somewhere to the object for reference. |
Jake
Member Posts: 464
From: Issaquah, WA U.S.A.
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 08-06-2003 12:50 PM
My signature has changed over time as well. Even as a kid I was aware that signing my name was supposed to be a "standard" way - the same on all checks for example - but I always wanted my signature to also have style. A few years ago it settled down to what it is now - just "Jake" in script and underlined. It's nice to take pride in my signature. After all, it's a little piece of me!I find that most of the astronauts take pride in their signatures as well. When signing my "multi-signed" piece, they seem to step up the style a notch. ------------------
Jake Schultz - curator,
Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home) |
Rizz
Member Posts: 1208
From: Upcountry, Maui, Hawaii
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-06-2003 01:30 PM
Noah-Funny that you should bring this topic up. I just finished signing 50 U.S. Savings bonds at my bank. I was sure thinking of those poor astros. After the first dozen, my hand got a cramp. The remaining 38 signatures all looked quite different. Just minutes after my first 12! Not to mention the bank wanted me to 'add' my address on each (which was already pre-printed on the front) and then 'add' my SS#, and bank account #. I can understand why some astro's charge alot, and why some refuse to sign at all. Glad I'm not famous! Rizz [This message has been edited by Rizz (edited August 06, 2003).] |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
From:
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 08-06-2003 04:08 PM
My signature hasn't looked the same twice in years. It actually astonishes me how poeple actually make them look alike all the time. |
Carrie
Member Posts: 225
From: Syracuse, New York, USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 08-06-2003 07:54 PM
My signature hasn't changed all that much, but other than it, I can't even remember how to cursive write anything else...I print everything I hand-write. If I actually had to cursive write something, it would take some hard thinking, and I'm still not sure I'd do it correctly!Carrie  |
astronut
Member Posts: 969
From: South Fork, CO
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-06-2003 10:37 PM
Mine deteriorated many years ago. When I was in retail management in my early 20's I had to OK each refund in the refund log book after we closed for the night. My company wouldn't accept your initials, but wanted a full signature for each item. Usually several hundred per night. My signature quickly became a scribble and remains that way to this day.------------------
Happy trails,
Wayno
"...you are go for TLI."
www.TransLunarInjection.com |
collshubby
Member Posts: 591
From: Madisonville, Louisiana
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-06-2003 11:27 PM
With my work, I have to sign off on letters everyday. I'd say since I've started collecting, my signature has gotton a more autograph-like flare to it. I do that for fun.As many of you are aware, I am American but live in Australia. Although e-mail and computer video are my main means of communication with my family in the U.S., I still write letters from time to time. Especially to my grandmother who doesn't have a computer. I love to look at my grandmother's writing, as well as that of my late grandfather. Did he ever have elegant handwriting! It is truly becoming a lost art. ------------------
Brian Peter
astronautbrian@hotmail.com |
danatbird
Member Posts: 30
From: Corsicana, TX
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 08-07-2003 08:58 AM
My signature has become virtually unreadable - actually, I think it *is* unreadable. I attributed it to having to sign my name so much at work. In fact, most things now are just a hurriedly scribbled DH... |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-07-2003 09:54 AM
It all depends. If it's a bank slip, or a receipt for FedEx, I just do a scrawl where you can just make out the H and the S. If it's some formal legal document, then I try and sign it nice and neat. |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 08-15-2003 10:57 PM
Great topic/great question !
I have NEVER figured out why people SCRIBBLE their names....aren't they PROUD of their name???? I want EVERYONE who sees my name to be able to read it and know it.Of course, my autograph has changed over the years. While "studying" Presidential signatures.....I developed mine like many of them, so that there is no lifting of the pen from the paper from start to finish. Only ONE person has ever noticed or commented about the technique and I was flattered to have her notice. Gene |
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