Understood. You can never be 100% sure with a drunk Mantle (if that's what this is). I think that the flow is pretty good abd the places where it seems to stumble don't seem like it was done to try to slow down and fake a signature. To me it just seems like (I hope anyway) a drunk Mantle signature. The inscription (if legit) would also be more likely to have been put there by an inebriated Mantle.
One other thing I think it has in its favor is the placement of the signature. He is usually pretty good at squaring up his signature on the sweet spot. This one is lower, which would make sense if the "F-You" was already there and he wrote his signature under it. Then again, someone else could have written the "F-You" there and he could have signed under it.
Or for all I know it may not even be his signature.
Tom C
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