Any thoughts on this Splendid Splinter

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by chaddurbin

no imo urs are really bad and look nothing like a modern williams auto.

on the '54 gpc the "ted" looks simplified while the "williams" look overly ornate compared to others...but one of the reasons i purchased the gpc because i was banking on the fact it's not very likely to be forged. of course i could be wrong.

You almost never find a postmarked forged GPC that is true.
But on this one I lean towards it being secretarial.
Zip's analysis was a good one and this Williams just does not look right in several different ways.
And yes that group of three are painfully bad.
Darren, did you say you got them through the mail??
If so, Ted must have been breaking in a new ghost signer, who did not last very long.
They do not look like the usual TTM Ted Williams autographs.
And no Zip I won't haul out my Mona Lisa Ted on this thread. .

ps. dating the sig. would not be out of the norm, I don't consider that to be a deciding factor.