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   From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   On Tue, 6 May 2008 07:04:16 -0700 (PDT), northfield   
    wrote:   
      
   >On May 6, 5:51?am, barefoot  wrote:   
   >> and please...don't post as "sharon"... just post as yourself...it's   
   >> pretty obvious this is a planted name, as you haven't got the BALLS to   
   >> do anything you've threatened me with...this post PROVES that you are   
   >> either lon, or an employee...take me on like a man you coward!   
   >   
   >hi barefoot - your response shows that you simply have an opinion   
   >based on an untrained eye - no credentials or standing in the hobby.   
   >would you be able to setup a table at a hobby endorsed event- very   
   >doubtful.  these examples you say of strickler seem like rants more   
   >than anything else.  what have I 'threatended' you with? most of the   
   >posters on this usenet seem to be interested in modern items more so   
   >than my interests of vintage and classic.  Mr black - you probably   
   >aren't stupid but I don't know you.  sue - you seem to specialize in   
   >star wars signatures and other modern? anyway, like sue said there are   
   >no experts just mavens. Sharon   
      
      
   I know quite a lot about LOTR and Harry Potter and I am starting to be   
   good with Pirates of the Caribbean.  But that's because I collect   
   that; that's all.  I do know some.  I have been into Political sigs   
   lately and in the course of doing so, you start looking and looking   
   and looking at stuff till you're blue.  After a while you start   
   becoming familiar with stuff.  For instance, this past weekend I was   
   at an antique store and there was a booth that had a shelf of about 15   
   or so signed books.  I had three of them already (Colin Powell, John   
   Glenn and I think the other was Hillary Clinton) and I saw the   
   Margaret Thatcher they had and when I opened it, I immediately knew it   
   was right.  The Powell and the Clinton was right but the Glenn looked   
   ify (I wasn't sure about it but then again, his sig is easy to do   
   so...)   
   .  I ended up buying a Queen Noor signed book blindly... I have NO   
   CLUE about her signature.  But I based my decision on my good feelings   
   with the other sigs.   When I got home, I researched Ebay and Google   
   for people who had proof they got in person (one was a charity sticker   
   on it and others who boast on their site but aren't sellers etc).  Sig   
   looked good to me.  Her sig is obviously odd.  So in the future, I am   
   NOT going to be an expert on that. I'll just say, that looks similar   
   to ones seen but know way to tell and no way would I give advice on   
   it.  If I got it in person, I would tell the person look at mine...   
   but I still would not give an opinion.  But if I met the person   
   multiple times, got items by mail and knew their sig for years, yes, I   
   am giving an opinon.   
      
   You simply cannot base "I got this one time in person" and so it   
   matches mine it's legit.  There are good forgers out there.   
      
   Also, I bought a Rudy Guiliani book recently blindly (I tried to   
   research and on Ebay it looked good).  I got the book home and now   
   have my doubts.  It looks like his sig (in size and style) but it's   
   got stop and start lines (three of them).   
      
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