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Les Paul's signature?

Tom Wittrock

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I got an SG yesterday with this Les Paul signature on it.
Do any of you know his signature well enough to know if it is real? :hmm

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Ed Driscoll

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The day after our wedding, we saw Les at the Iridium, and during the autograph session after the show, we asked him to sign a leftover placecard setting* my wife had in her purse, which he signed with a sharpie:

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* minus the obligatory URL watermark, of course. :biggrin:
 
Tom Wittrock

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Ed Driscoll said:
Thanks! I hope it helps with the verdict on the signature on the SG.
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I really want to see signatures on guitars. I also have Les' signature on a photo of my first Les Pauls. But I got that signature some 40 years ago.
Since there is no provenance for this signature on this guitar, I am mostly satisfying my curiosity. :)
 
J.D.

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I would say it is authentic, based on other (believed authentic) signatures I've seen over the years (do a quick eBay search), and that obtaining Les's signature while alive was relatively easy.
 
Tom Wittrock

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I reloaded my old signature photo. This is on a photo I had when I saw Les at a NAMM show in the late 70's.
So, it is 40 years old.

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