My TTM Project!!!!! Just sent Koufax, Ford, Namath!!!
mickeymantle24
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I am new to this TTM thing and thought I should try to get autographs from some of the greatest to ever play to game. I have sent a 61 Topps Koufax, 69 Topps Joe Namath, and a 59 Topps Whitey Ford to see if they would auograph the cards. I have had some lck with other players, but dought Sandy Koufax or Joe Namath will keep my streak going. All I know is that the tracking number says they have all been delivered, I will let you guys know when they have arrived back to me. Here are just a few of the star players I have gotten through the mail ad you guys are also welcome to so off your TTM sucesses!!!
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Mike
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<< <i>All Joe Montana items signed TTM are ghost signed. >>
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Good luck on the Koufax.
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<< <i> Just thought I Would let you guys know I recieved the Ford in the mail today, It looks awesome!!!!! Thanks Mr. Ford >>
Congrats mickeymantle24 that's cool.
<< <i>quite a few on startiger think Joe is autopen or secretarial. Montana has over 200 successes and the vast majority are around 10 days. I doubt he is around, signs that much that quickly, I just doubt it. Prob secretarial or autopen I think. The two I got back look like autopen.
John >>
You can tell if it's an autopen if you know what to look for.
<< <i>Can I ask the stupid question about what an autopen is? >>
The first autopens were developed by an Englishman named John Isaac Hawkins. Hawkins received a US patent for his device in 1803. In 1804, Thomas Jefferson began using the device extensively. This early device was known at the time as a polygraph—an abstracted version of the pantograph—bearing little resemblance to today's autopens in design or operation.
Harry Truman is believed to have been the first United States President to use the autopen as a way of responding to mail and signing cheques. Autopen devices are used today by politicians and fundraisers to sign letters to constituents written by administrative assistants and clerical staff, and by celebrities such as movie stars, music stars and astronauts to sign photographs. A company named Studio Fanmail uses autopens to reproduce celebrity autographs onto pictures of the celebrity.
The reason for employing an autopen is typically emotive, intended to form a compromise between making every signature by hand, which can take up a great deal of time for the signer, and printing a digital scan of the autograph, which can be felt impersonal by the recipient.
Today's autopens are often used to allow someone to be in two places at once. A politician can be travelling while his staff sign letters on his behalf. Donald Rumsfeld used an autopen to sign letters to the family of people killed in action. When questioned on the subject, he stated it was inappropriate and began to sign the letters personally. Queen Elizabeth II typically signs Christmas cards by autopen.
Further developing the class of devices known as autopens, Canadian author Margaret Atwood developed a device called the Longpen, which allows audio and video conversation between the fan and author while a book is being signed remotely.