Ott signed card

[Runscott]

Thanks for posting. It looks like it was traced over a forgery, unless Ott was signing from an awkward position.

Do you think kids back in the 1930's had access to authentic examples of signatures, so that they could create their own 'autographed' cards? If so, I could see a kid making the mistakes in this example.

[yanks12025]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Thanks for posting. It looks like it was traced over a forgery, unless Ott was signing from an awkward position.

Do you think kids back in the 1930's had access to authentic examples of signatures, so that they could create their own 'autographed' cards? If so, I could see a kid making the mistakes in this example.

In the same auction and I'm guessing from the same collection was a index card signed by Ott and others. They were real autos. So im guessing the kid might have gotten the paper signed in person and then later thought it would be cool to copy them onto the cards.