by jason1980s » Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:11 pm
My grandfather has a maid service come over the house ever few weeks. He's not rich but just likes a clean house and does not have the time to do so himself due to having to spend nearly ever hour with my ill grandmother.
Dick Van Dyke is a big celebrity with lots of money and maybe not a lot of time. If my grandfather can have a service come in every few weeks to handle something small then I'm sure Dick needs someone coming in, even if only once a month, to handle something big like fan mail. He obviously thinks very highly of her ability to make a similar signature as the same TTMs have been coming out of the address for at least 15+ years. And that doesn't mean he's been signing himself all those years. Carol Lanning was Charlton Heston's secretary for years signing with all the TTMs coming from any address with most prevalent being the home address.
The reason we are posting about them being fake isn't to ruin anyone's life but to inform fellow board members as to not make the same mistakes we (or myself specifically) have made over the years sending requests to DVD and thinking I had the real thing. We are trying to better the collection of others in swaying them against the fakes and towards the real deal.
My first year of collecting probably saw 75 % fakes (maybe more) so that's wasted postage, supplies, my time in a thoughtful letter and I felt horrible about it. I would have LOVED to have been on a site like this one, isitreal, autograph magazine live, star archive etc...where we could find out about the fakes. Back in my starting days all I had were a few single fan sites and they thought as long as the sig was not AP or PP it was real.
My grandfather has a maid service come over the house ever few weeks. He's not rich but just likes a clean house and does not have the time to do so himself due to having to spend nearly ever hour with my ill grandmother.
Dick Van Dyke is a big celebrity with lots of money and maybe not a lot of time. If my grandfather can have a service come in every few weeks to handle something small then I'm sure Dick needs someone coming in, even if only once a month, to handle something big like fan mail. He obviously thinks very highly of her ability to make a similar signature as the same TTMs have been coming out of the address for at least 15+ years. And that doesn't mean he's been signing himself all those years. Carol Lanning was Charlton Heston's secretary for years signing with all the TTMs coming from any address with most prevalent being the home address.
The reason we are posting about them being fake isn't to ruin anyone's life but to inform fellow board members as to not make the same mistakes we (or myself specifically) have made over the years sending requests to DVD and thinking I had the real thing. We are trying to better the collection of others in swaying them against the fakes and towards the real deal.
My first year of collecting probably saw 75 % fakes (maybe more) so that's wasted postage, supplies, my time in a thoughtful letter and I felt horrible about it. I would have LOVED to have been on a site like this one, isitreal, autograph magazine live, star archive etc...where we could find out about the fakes. Back in my starting days all I had were a few single fan sites and they thought as long as the sig was not AP or PP it was real.
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