Are There Examples of Eddie Grant's Autograph?
 

Just curious as that is one autograph I would love to own. Are any examples known to exist?

Tom C

Tom - here's an exemplar from "Deadball Stars". No idea on authenticity, but they seem to be 95% accurate...

JimStinson
 

To my knowledge there is at least one Eddie Grant autograph in private collection.

By no means easy he died in the Argonne Forest 1918 in France in WW I and is buried there. I tried to find a copy of his WW I draft card in the National Archives and oddly there is none, or if there is I could not find it.
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jim@stinsonsports.com

He probably enlisted before he had to register for the draft which is why there might not be a draft card of him.

I would imagine there are some in scrapbooks from his College days that have yet to see the light of day. I have an example from a team sheet (copy not the original) that I wont post because I dont want the actual owner to get mad at me, and he signed the front of his T205 card as well. The sheet is the only one I have ever known to sell before so there is at least one in private hands.

Rhys

"Harvard Eddie" signed up as an officer before the U.S. instituted the draft just like Rhys said. He was a lawyer during his time as a player and after he retired in 1914. There should be plenty of court and legal documents with his signature on them filed away somewhere, someplace... If anyone is interested in Eddie Grant I wrote a story about him here: http://infinitecardset.blogspot.com/...orial-day.html

Aren't the "autographs" on T205 generic rather than facsimiles of the real thing?

A very well written story. Thanks for sharing.

Some of the T205 autographs are the real deal, others were "secretarial" but is almost all cases they were attempting to duplicate the real signature so you cant take them as 100% authentic but even when they are not dead on, they are close. For what its worth, the GRANT signature on his T205 IS the real deal and that is what I was refering to.

Having compared them, I believe the example from the book to not be authentic.

Rhys