Michael Jackson Autograph Photo sells for $4,000

A Michael Jackson signed photograph on stage circa 1992 during the Dangerous era. Signed in lower left "Love Michael Jackson." sold today at Julian's Auction for $4,000  Auction estimate $300 - $500.

eBay Banned List of Autograph Merchants

eBay has updated their banned authenticator list to include COAs from Nicholas Burczyk, Christopher Morales and TTA Authentic (formerly STAT Authentic).

Here is the full list of banned authenticators:

Autographed items with COAs and LOAs, or references to COAs and LOAs from the following people or organizations.

Coach's Corner Sports Auctions LLC

Christopher L. Morales

Donald Frangipani

Forensic Document Services

Hollywood Dreams

J. DiMaggio Co. / J. DiMaggio Company

Legends Sports Memorabilia

Nathan's Autographs / N.E. Autographs

Nicholas Burczyk

Pro Sports / Pro Sports Memorabilia

Robert Prouty

R.R.'s Sports Cards & Collectibles

SCAA / Front Page Art / Angelo Marino

Slamdunk Sportscards & Memorabilia

Sports Alley Memorabilia

Sports Management Group

Stan's Sports / Stans Sports Memorabilia

TTA Authentic (formerly STAT Authentic)

Universal Memorabilia

XMI Authentications

USA Authentics

Blank COAs and LOAs / COAs and LOAs as stand-alone items

COAs and LOAs from anyone listed on the FBI's Operation Bullpen website

Charlton Heston Secretarial Signature Study

I'd like to call your attention to a signature study recently posted on a blog via Autograph Magazine Live. Steve Zarelli believes he has identified the identification factor in Charlton Heston secretarial signatures, if he is correct this is bad news for both through the mail and purchased Heston's. It looks like most Heston signed items are secretarial including my own. It appears even expert authentication services such as PSA/DNA got it wrong
  
Here is his synopsis:
The Theory
Photographs and other memorabilia sent to Mr. Heston's office were signed by a secretary. However, Mr. Heston did authentically sign books through-the-mail.  
Real vs. Secretary
In authentic signatures, the R in "Charlton" is distinctly a lowercase "r" and less than half the height of the L. The first four letters are clearly "Char."
In secretarial signatures, the R looks much more like a lowercase "l" and is about the same height as the L. So, the first four letters appear to be "Chall."

Steve would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this. He fully anticipate some resistance to the theory, because denial is always the first step. In fact, he would love to be proved wrong, because that would mean he wasn't sitting on a bunch of secretary signed photos!
Steve Zarelli has been collecting since the early 90s and is the UACC Ethics Director.

His blog is via www.MrZipper.com