Lou Gehrig Auto 1928 $2 Bill

1880nonsports · #1 10-26-2013, 11:07 AM

but it seems there's something quite interesting going on in the mind of a forger who uses something like a 2 dollar bill to represent their work. It's so "in your face". Most everyone has heard the "phoney as a two dollar bill" expression. I guess it's ego and gall mixed with anger and self-loathing. As has been expressed - the signature is terrible..........

Deertick · #2 10-26-2013, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by 1880nonsports

but it seems there's something quite interesting going on in the mind of a forger who uses something like a 2 dollar bill to represent their work. It's so "in your face". Most everyone has heard the "phoney as a two dollar bill" expression. I guess it's ego and gall mixed with anger and self-loathing. As has been expressed - the signature is terrible..........

Uhmmmm..... The expression is "As phony as a three dollar bill." This may explain some of the puzzled looks that you have received over the years.

1880nonsports · #3 10-26-2013, 11:42 AM

could pen an autograph that looks like the one in question whether they're in Queens or a small town in Iowa. Isn't the problem how to get the item into the market? A poor fake could be produced by anyone and show up anywhere where the naive linger like eBay, craig's list, yard sales, home town auctions and the like. The serious buyer in today's info rich cyberworld SHOULD be more difficult to fool and their radar would be more active in these lesser venues. That then requires a more adept hand to produce it but also a conduit or buffer to give it more legitimacy. The forger needs to somehow distance himself from his work. Whether that happens by complicity or ingnorance - it all comes down to knowing what you're buying and whom you trust.
BTW - not everyone here in Florida is a forger or crook - it's mostly just the prisoners and politicians.

1880nonsports · #4 10-26-2013, 11:53 AM

the looks I've always attributed to the fact my mother was allowed to drink in her second trimester. Growing up in NY I've mostly heard it the way I said it - although phoney as a three dollar bill is of course logically more correct as there never were 3$ bills. I was born in the 1950's and like now there were few 2$ bills in circulation - and I believe that's how the phrase morhed or became an accepted usage. Question everything - accept nothing.

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