OT: Jefferson Burdick Autograph
 

Anyone have an example they can post? I picked up an autographed copy of his Pioneer Postcards and from my scattered memory, I think it looks good but just wanting to confirm. I know some on here have correspondence with maybe his autograph attached...........

Thanks for any help...............Tom

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Hey Tom
To me this is as on topic as it gets!!! Maybe this letter from him to his good friend Walt Corson will help?

http://luckeycards.com/poburdickletterfront.jpg

Leon that's an awesome piece from a hobby pioneer/legend

Leon
 

a priceless piece!!!
from the hand of the icon who started it all for us!

congrats!

best,
barry

well
 

since ya'll liked the front here is the back of Jeff's letter.....shown before but not for a while....http://luckeycards.com/poburdickletterback.jpg

Hmm................
 

Take a look.........opinions? The J looks okay I think..............

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4HWgEGY7S_k/St...s400/photo.jpg

burdick
 

tom,
i looked around the letter and noticed that the J matches well with
the difficult J in Juggler.

leon,
i hadn't seen these notes where Burdick is sharing his draft of his
actual 'classification notes'!!
i stand in awe.

again,congrats---many fold.
best,
barry

Tom
 

On the first page I showed there is a big B at the bottom on the left. I think it looks pretty close to the B on your autograph. We have several expert autograph members so hopefully one or more of them will chime in....regards

I'm pretty cool with it as it has a strong......
 

provenance from where it came from. I'm not into collecting the Pioneer Postcards perse but I couldn't pass up on a Burdick Auto....

Certainly an item I would love to have in my collection. One would think more Burdick correspondence would have survived. It's hard to peg value on things like this, and there are two schools of thought on the subject. Some contend that holographic material from the keynote "fringe" characters in baseball's history is next to worthless (from a monetary standpoint), while others understand the beauty and appreciate how wonderful an addition these items can be to a collection.

Case in point:

I have a Dodgers book that was signed twice by Hilda Chester. She died in obscurity in the late 1970's. It's signed once on the flyleaf and once on a photo of her featured inside. Only one or two other examples are known to exist. To me, Hilda's notoriety is certainly on par with that of McGreevey (yet we don't encounter a boatload of fake Chester material--that weasel hasn't popped yet--hi Peter;) ). Some colleagues literally guffawed when I explained to them about the value some of this material deserves. Their opinions were appreciated, but I have turned down a couple of reasonable offers for the Chester item in the past. It's one piece I have never felt the need to be negotiable about!

Is the alternative here that someone would have forged a Jefferson Burdick signature?

Yeah.............
 

I guess that'd be the alternative.........which........at the time seems implausible.......but I could see anything being possible in this environment! I still don't think there's anything wrong with it. Just wanted a couple samples to look at...........

and
 

I just noticed for the first time.....The back of the Burdick letter, bottom right, under professions, note the 1st one :p.

Leon........
 

That's a bad word in October 2009 America.................the 'C' word........

Maybe he was just a stickler for punctuation and the like.

I think what Jeff meant is maybe that's just a person who likes to use a lot of capital letters (sorry if that's not what you meant).

well
 

I really never knew that being a Capitalist was a profession?:confused: I believe that is what that word says.....

Precisely, now back to worrying about the imminent demise of the newspaper.

I think today's title for a capitalist would be banker, or hedge fund manager. Something where you make a lot of money.

Hmm......
 

If you dont like capitalists are you an anti-captialistite?

Just a thought, Tom
 

Tom, You could always send the autograph off to STAT for their authenticity...;):eek:

Mark......
 

I'm concerned that STAT rejects 80% of the merchandise they get, so my odds are pretty bad......


From a Legendary Auctions auction a while back.......
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4HWgEGY7S_k/St...00/burdick.jpg



Looks pretty close........

Compare the "B" in "B"urdick in what's posted above . . . .

I'm also slightly concerned that #15 under the K55 Wild Animal set is listed as "Arab on camel" :)

No Tom, you are a lower case lefty.