Marquard thoughts??

[JimStinson]

Here is what I mean, the ending of the signature varied but in all the later in life signatures that I remember seeing the "R" in Rube is formed with a single stroke. The pen does not leave signature. The R starts with a down stroke, lower loop coming around to form the top loop in R, Maybe he signed baseballs different and maybe not
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[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by JimStinson

Here is what I mean, the ending of the signature varied but in all the later in life signatures that I remember seeing the "R" in Rube is formed with a single stroke. The pen does not leave signature. The R starts with a down stroke, lower loop coming around to form the top loop in R, Maybe he signed baseballs different and maybe not
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Jim,
Thanks for your input.

[Mr. Zipper]

The cracker Jack card posted earlier appears to have the two stroke R. Is that questionable as well?

I don't know Rube from Jack Ruby, but it would seem any forger would try to imitate the simple one stroke construction rather than just make up a two stroke R out of thin air. My sense would be to research it further and look at the whole signature rather than base a decision on what may be a Legitimate variant.