I wanted to get some help with this one. I am better than 75% confident the signature is a Mantle, albeit a rather sloppy likely drunk version. But the only two balls I have seen with this particular word in the inscription had very different letter formation especially with the "F". But I am not about to make a determination based on two examples that may have been signed very close in time to one another. This is definitely the same pen and seems to have been written contemporaneously. But that doesn't mean he wrote it.
So I would like to get opinions on both the signature AND the inscription.
Tom C