Shoeless Joe Jackson Auto- Fake?

[shagrotn77]

What's the story with the Gehrig you guys are talking about?

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by shagrotn77

What's the story with the Gehrig you guys are talking about?

More on this https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=308821 thread about the Gehrig

[GrayGhost]

Wow. That signature doesn’t look anywhere near the license and will. Refund please!

[Klrdds]

This photo was first auctioned by Heritage in 2015 / 2016 and was met with much fanfare and the consensus then was that it was fake . Having owned the Joe Jackson signed drivers license for 20 years that was recently auctioned I was asked to render an opinion on the piece as well. I felt it was not good then and I still stand by that opinion .

[Klrdds]

Here’s the link to Heritage Auctions listing of the item in 2015


https://sports.ha.com/itm/autographs...a/7130-80051.s

[FrankWakefield]

1- I'd not buy that.

2- What year was he born? Not that one I don't think.

3- Seems to me there's a bunch of people out there who should learn more about what they're wanting to collect, instead of trusting various self proclaimed graders / authenticators / certifiers.

[sportscardpete]

I did talk to Dan and he gave some really good insight into the details of the signature:

One other hang-up I have is if you look at the E in Joe’s signature when Katie would sign her signature of Joe, she wrote in cursive “Joe Jackson”. When Joe signed his name, he would sign JoE, and the “E” almost looks like a backward 3. If you look at this signature in the photo, it is an upper-case E, and written by someone that knows how to write. She didn’t do the upper-case E. It is my inkling that someone may have tried to pass it off as a real signature. Possibly someone did their research into how he signed vs. Katie.