Need Opinions on this Lou Gehrig Autograph

[IronHorse2130]

So, here's the story...

I am friend's with a guy who has agreed to help an older gentleman (early 70's) liquidate his collection. I went to this man's house earlier today with my friend to see what he had. The majority of stuff in the house wasn't worth much (collectibles from the last 25 years) but he did have some vintage/antique items. He told me that he had several thousand autographs at one time but got rid of most years ago. He still has some of the more well known signers including this Lou Gehrig piece. I told him I would post photos on the forum to try to save him a bunch of money before sending to PSA. I highly value and trust many of the Net54 members' opinions and hope you guys can help. I'm going to try and take a few more photos of some other other items (he has a Ruth, Maris, Mantle, Marilyn Monroe & others) over the next few days but thought I would start with this one. If all/any of these items are good I am going to try to have him agree to offer some of them for sale here on the forum.

The Gehrig autograph is on a photo cut from a newspaper. The newspaper was glued to an index card some time ago and could be easily removed as the glue is quite dry. The autograph is in pencil. This is the only info I can provide other than the photos. Your comments and expertise are greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[GrayGhost]

Pic not too clear. I guess thats best u can do in Pencil. The Large G doesn't look right to me, from what I can see, but Im not the expert many on here are

[perezfan]

To Scott's point, the sig is awfully light to make a determination. But from what I can see, I do not like the respective slants of the "L" and the "G". The "L" is very slanted, whereas the "G" is much more upright... not representative of the Iron Horse's typical signature.

The fact that the rest is so light, almost leads me to believe that this was intentional. It's far tougher to identify a forgery if you can't see it very clearly! Just my 2 cents....

[IronHorse2130]

Yeah, I know the photos aren't fantastic but the signature is quite light and being in pencil doesn't photograph very well.

Anybody else have any thoughts?

[cookie]

Besides the slnts being way off i don,t ever recall a gehrig sign. on newspaper print that was good...and have to say that almost any vintage auto[alexander ,johnson,lajoie,etc.]that i have seen in the last few years on newspaper i would not touch.just my opinion

[canjond]

Here's a Gehrig signed newspaper from my collection which I believe to be authentic. It original came from Oser auctions way back when (I believe).