OT: Jefferson Burdick Autograph

[ethicsprof]

a priceless piece!!!
from the hand of the icon who started it all for us!

congrats!

best,
barry

[Leon]

since ya'll liked the front here is the back of Jeff's letter.....shown before but not for a while....

[autograf]

Take a look.........opinions? The J looks okay I think..............

[ethicsprof]

tom,
i looked around the letter and noticed that the J matches well with
the difficult J in Juggler.

leon,
i hadn't seen these notes where Burdick is sharing his draft of his
actual 'classification notes'!!
i stand in awe.

again,congrats---many fold.
best,
barry

[Leon]

On the first page I showed there is a big B at the bottom on the left. I think it looks pretty close to the B on your autograph. We have several expert autograph members so hopefully one or more of them will chime in....regards

[autograf]

provenance from where it came from. I'm not into collecting the Pioneer Postcards perse but I couldn't pass up on a Burdick Auto....

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Certainly an item I would love to have in my collection. One would think more Burdick correspondence would have survived. It's hard to peg value on things like this, and there are two schools of thought on the subject. Some contend that holographic material from the keynote "fringe" characters in baseball's history is next to worthless (from a monetary standpoint), while others understand the beauty and appreciate how wonderful an addition these items can be to a collection.

Case in point:

I have a Dodgers book that was signed twice by Hilda Chester. She died in obscurity in the late 1970's. It's signed once on the flyleaf and once on a photo of her featured inside. Only one or two other examples are known to exist. To me, Hilda's notoriety is certainly on par with that of McGreevey (yet we don't encounter a boatload of fake Chester material--that weasel hasn't popped yet--hi Peter ). Some colleagues literally guffawed when I explained to them about the value some of this material deserves. Their opinions were appreciated, but I have turned down a couple of reasonable offers for the Chester item in the past. It's one piece I have never felt the need to be negotiable about!

[Matt]

Originally Posted by autograf

Take a look.........opinions? The J looks okay I think..............

Is the alternative here that someone would have forged a Jefferson Burdick signature?

[autograf]

I guess that'd be the alternative.........which........at the time seems implausible.......but I could see anything being possible in this environment! I still don't think there's anything wrong with it. Just wanted a couple samples to look at...........

[Leon]

I just noticed for the first time.....The back of the Burdick letter, bottom right, under professions, note the 1st one .

[autograf]

That's a bad word in October 2009 America.................the 'C' word........

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by autograf

That's a bad word in October 2009 America.................the 'C' word........

Maybe he was just a stickler for punctuation and the like.