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Topic: Hank Hartsfield autopen (or autograph)
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Dirk
Member Posts: 933
From: Belgium
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 12-11-2018 05:22 PM
   
I found this autopenned signed photo of Henry Hartsfield. Found no other match with this autopen, but is surely not genuine signed I think. 
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Greggy_D
Member Posts: 977
From: Michigan
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 12-11-2018 06:53 PM
Looks legit to me. Mattingly is an autopen though. |
Chuckster01
Member Posts: 873
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 12-12-2018 04:54 AM
I have the same lithograph in my collection with a good Hartsfield and an autopen Mattingly.I am not sure why Hank signed them as I know he also had an autopen pattern but i like it anyway. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-12-2018 06:15 AM
As Greggy and Chuck have pointed out, the Hartsfield is genuine on this STS-4 crew litho, in my opinion. There was only a common-known or single autopen of the Group 7/veteran shuttle astronaut. But there are some cases where a crew litho could be signed by a printed format of signatures, but that was usually the case for certain later shuttle crews, but this one is not and contains a commonly used Mattingly autopen. |
David C
Member Posts: 1015
From: Lausanne
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 12-12-2018 10:56 AM
Significantly different to the in-person Hartsfield's that I have. I guess he changed his signature over the years. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2475
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-12-2018 11:40 AM
I talked to him at a signing event a few years back about how neat his signature was. He commented that he had changed it when he started signing more often. He did so that it was smoother and more legible for those wanting his signature. Just the cool guy he was. |
Dirk
Member Posts: 933
From: Belgium
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 12-12-2018 03:14 PM
This was his later signature (through the mail, on an older photo): |
Apollo-Soyuz
Member Posts: 1205
From: Shady Side, Md
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 12-13-2018 07:04 PM
Here is a scan of a Hartsfield autograph I received through the mail years ago. Looks similar to the one in the above post. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2914
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-13-2018 09:24 PM
Col. Hartsfield did change his signature styles throughout the decades, but only 2-3 times that I can recall. The one depicted above is what I refer to as the "horizontal line crossings" that I have as well represented in my own autograph binders. I am not exactly sure when the horizontal pattern first got started, but I am thinking during the late 1980's, and at times, it did continue years afterwards. But during his shuttle flights from 1982-85, his second and more common pattern had been used, and not the horizontal format until later.
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