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Puffin Hobbit

6 Dec, 2020 (edited)
2020-12-6 1:01:35 PM UTC

Is this a real sig?

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6 Dec, 2020 (edited)
2020-12-6 1:34:16 PM UTC
Hard to tell, but it looks like a forgery...Here are a couple of other real signatures for comparison.

(Images borrowed from Manhattan Rare Books and The Tolkien Bookshelf)

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6 Dec, 2020
2020-12-6 1:50:01 PM UTC
Don't think so. I don't think Tolkien out of principal would have signed this edition and if he did not in that location.
6 Dec, 2020
2020-12-6 5:00:11 PM UTC
It is fake, there is no link between the "L" and the "K", we see here a stop between them and a strong mark of ink. Same thing between the "E" and the "N"... Usually, there are factors that don t change.
6 Dec, 2020
2020-12-6 7:15:35 PM UTC
Not only does it look fake, it looks remarkably similar to another fake I've seen recently, presumably on here?
6 Dec, 2020
2020-12-6 7:21:02 PM UTC
and currently the auctions are at 321£.......
6 Dec, 2020
2020-12-6 7:30:38 PM UTC
Also, it is an ex school library book. Hard to see any circumstances he would have signed it / been asked to sign it (as presumably it became ex-libris long after his death).
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