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   From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   Why were you trying to work a deal with him anyway with his   
   reputation?  You really need to be careful; because now I do have to   
   wonder.   
      
   Now it's coming back to me.  I asked you where you got your items etc   
   and you did admit to buying from other dealers I believe.  Usually I   
   don't put links to those who do that on my site unless I am positive   
   they are really great about looking at the stuff.  I looked at your   
   stuff and got an opinion and looked ok at the time and so I put it.   
   But now I wonder.... making a deal with someone known as Bareforger?   
   Though I do feel I've not seen any forged stuff from Barefoot that I   
   know of or can prove.  So I give the benefit of the doubt to him;   
   however I am not going to go out of my way to recommend him either!   
   You really need to be concerned about who you do business with.   
   Reputation is everything.  Ask the three best ones on here... Ed,   
   Autographpros and Autographworld.   
      
   By all means, if anyone has any dealer they know to be bad, you know   
   I'll remove it from my site.  Anyone knowingly/blatantly/proveable   
   selling forgeries goes on the Xlist.  I've not worked that in some   
   time, but I always work submissions (serious ones).   
      
   Speaking of that; I am nearly complete with my start of a new   
   signature database with examples from the Profiles in history and   
   signature house auction catalogs for people to use.  While doing this   
   I discovered a couple sigs that were "off" to my eye but after looking   
   and looking, I came to the conclusion the time frames were so vast on   
   a couple of these you can tell that's where the sig changes.  There   
   are signatures where people have accused some of forgeries and they   
   possibly are NOT.  Several sigs through history change.   
      
   Katherine Hepburn wrote Kate on a lot of items and Katherine on others   
   A couple celebs signed in full and fluid in a few photos and on   
   another wrote cramped and more jagged because of a small space on   
   white where it showed.... George Lucas started signing so much his sig   
   when from full to GL which looks like C squiggle L line.  Same with   
   many others (Orlando Bloom).  the old golden era of Hollywood showed   
   more care in signatures; modern ones don't.  You see a vintage poster   
   of Star Wars (first edition) with a signature that looks like 1990's   
   (late) to 2000's on it.  All that means is someone wrecked their   
   vintage poster is all.  You see longer inscriptions in the past than   
   now and have much more to look at in the way of signature ID than you   
   do now which makes modern sigs more tough to ID as wrong.   
      
   Be very careful when accusing people.  That's all I am saying.   
   Instead, research and gather proof then out their sorry asses.   
      
   On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:17:29 -0500, "medieval"   
    wrote:   
      
   >You have been invited to make inquiries but for some reason you refuse to   
   >do so.  You post assertions but never have tangible evidence to support   
   >your claims.  You want to sound like you know what your talking about but   
   >when it comes down to making it stick it's always "I heard this, I heard   
   >that", relying on heresay and innuendo.  You and I have never met though I   
   >talked to you one time 6 years ago when you tried to hawk some alleged   
   >signed items over the phone and begged and pleaded because you were   
   >broke...but I refused to buy.  Beyond that, it's been nothing more than a   
   >stupid vendetta because I didn't appreciate your crude manner over the   
   >phone and the constant IMing over internet and I let you know it.   
      
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