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2019 Planner
3XY Radio Music Charts
80th Birth Anniversary Cards
Artist Job Sheets 1965 and 1966
Autopen signature
Bags
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Beatty Zimmerman's cake recipe
Beer Mats and Coasters
Behind The Picture Frame (Genesis)
Bob Dylan Fan Certificate
Bob Dylan Television Special project
Bob Dylan's New York Revisited
Book cover
Bookmarks
Box Of Vision
Calendars:
       1979 Holland
       1986 Portugal
       1994 Q Rock'n Roll, UK
       1995 UK
       2004 USA
       2009, 10, 11 'Remembered'
       2009-2010 HMV, UK
       2012 UK
       2013
       2017   2018   2019   2020
       2021   2022   2023   2024   2025
Cards:
       Birthday
       Greetings
       Phone
       Playing
       Tarot
       Trading
       Starbucks
Cassettes Inlays
Certificates of Insurance
Cigar Bands
Coloring Books
Crosswords
Customs Declaration
Diary
Dutch concerts 1993, 1995, 1996
Dylan... but not Bob
Heaven's Door Whiskey booklet
Hurricane signed words
Jigsaw Puzzles
Jukebox Strips
Landing Cards
Letraset Catalogue
Lyric Quote Print
Maarten Giltay Veth artworks
Matches
Minnesota:
        Duluth Directory 1944
        Hibbing Directories 1950's
        Hibbing High School Yearbooks         Tangled Up In Ore 2008
No Direction Home artwork proofs
Non-existing Items:
        Catherine Jackson's Designs
        Discográfica mock up covers
        Imaginary front covers
        Japanese magazines parodies
        Photography of Don Hunstein
Notebooks
Paris 1966 press conference
Postcards
Restaurants
Reuters Profile
Rolling Stone 1969 reprint
Rotterdam 1978 Introduction
SNAP Galleries Letterpress
Stamps:
        Official and Illegal
        Fantasy
Stickers
Store displays
Street Legal legal file of lyrics
Tony Glover interview transcripts
Tour Itineraries
Tour Rider US-Canada 2013
Twelve Tribes booklets
UK 1965 Photo Sleeve
Unauthorized Documentaries (The)
Wanted Man, UK
Wieslaw Tarlowski's creations
Wikipedia "books"

 

AUTOPEN SIGNATURE

   When THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG was published on November 2022 1st, the publisher Simon & Schuster offered for $599 an “Exclusive Edition Signed by Bob Dylan” on its website, coming with an authenticity letter.
   But soon, by comparing their 'signed' copy on online forums, collectors raised suspicions that the books were not signed by Bob Dylan at all, but by autopen, or signing machine, a device that can replicate signatures from a pre-stored original; there seems to have been at least 17 of them, as can be seen below.
  Of course that reduced in huge proportions the value of the items.
  Under the pressure, Simon & Schuster apologized, stopped the selling of the Exclusive Edition and refunded the buyers, even telling them to keep the book.
  How such a serious publisher went into what can be called a mistake, a blunder or a swindle is incomprehensible.


  On November 26th Bob Dylan reacted on Facebook:
  To my fans and followers,
   I’ve been made aware that there’s some controversy about signatures on some of my recent artwork prints and on a limited-edition of Philosophy Of Modern Song. I’ve hand-signed each and every art print over the years, and there’s never been a problem.
   However, in 2019 I had a bad case of vertigo and it continued into the pandemic years. It takes a crew of five working in close quarters with me to help enable these signing sessions, and we could not find a safe and workable way to complete what I needed to do while the virus was raging. So, during the pandemic, it was impossible to sign anything and the vertigo didn’t help. With contractual deadlines looming, the idea of using an auto-pen was suggested to me, along with the assurance that this kind of thing is done ‘all the time’ in the art and literary worlds.
   Using a machine was an error in judgment and I want to rectify it immediately. I’m working with Simon & Schuster and my gallery partners to do just that.
   With my deepest regrets,
   Best wishes,
   Bob Dylan



Here are the 17 variations used for Bob Dylan's signature, as noted by Jason H on the Autograph forum:

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                                                                                                                    Simon & Schuster authenticity letter



   Below is the "authenticity letter" that came with the books, signed (with autopen?) by Jonathan Karp, President of Simon & Schuster:


Simon & Schuster authenticity letter


   There is a very strong possibility that Autopen had been already used on the BEHIND THE PICTURE FRAME prints, series of sets sold by Genesis Productions "each archival print (being) signed as a mark of authenticity by the artist himself, Bob Dylan".

  

 

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