Looking for opinions on this Chick Hafey signature

[ullmandds]

I'm certainly no expert...but the y's look very different to me?

[packs]

I'm not an expert either but in my opinion the Y's and F's are different. The seller had the photos listed as being from 1932. Both these guys lived almost into the 1970s (Hafey 73 and O'Doul 69) so we're talking 40 years in between for them to change their signatures. They could both very well be extremely fake. It's just a very weird fake to go through the trouble of making, especially since it's clear that if these are fake the forger at least had some sense of what the signature looked like and lacked some sense of what later signatures looked like.

[mr2686]

that's exactly what I'm thinking as well

[prewarsports]

To me the "e" in Lefty and the "e" in Hafey are the telltale signs that the same person probably wrote those. That is a very distinct almost upside down looking v and it is exactly the same on each. I am not an authenticator and am just giving my opinion.

However, the good news is, you got that Hafey cheap even as an original photo and from my experience as a guy who has collected photos for over 10 years, Hafey is a tough guy to get an image of. I am not sure if he was self conscious about his glasses, shy, or nobody cared, but of all the Hall of Famers of his era, he is one of the toughest. For example, right now I have about 75 different images of Babe Ruth, and 5-10 each of other guys like Bottomley, Hornsby, Foxx, Wilson, Hartnett etc. and I dont own a single Hafey and have not for years so signed or not, you did well.

[rhettyeakley]

I'm not seeing what you guys are seeing (the "f" in those two names is almost exactly the same to me) so I will just have to respectfully disagree with you guys.

[mr2686]

Prewarsports...you said it. I have yet to find even a reproduced photo of Hafey that I really like, not that there are that many to choose from. I'll probably end up matting his signature with a Perez Steele or other card and be done with it.
Rhett, there's nothing wrong with disagreeing on stuff like this, in fact, that is what makes this so much fun. Makes you want to dig up as many exemplars as possible to help prove your point. Kinda like standing on the corner debating with your friends who the better ballplayer is...Willie, Mickey or the Duke.