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Post Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:47 pm 
 

Did anyone here pick this Chainmail up?:  
** expired/removed eBay auction **


If so, were you able to authenticate the writing as Fritz Leiber's?  I wrote to his son, but still haven't heard back from Justin about whether the handwriting was Fritz's or not.


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Post Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:59 pm 
 

Bracton has some very cool correspondence with Mr. Leiber, that he could have compared, but anything of this sort would be sheer speculation with definitive proof highly unlikely. So personally I was glad that the seller did not get a bonus for speculating that it might have been owned/written on by Mr. Leiber.


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Post Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:01 pm 
 

By the way, nice name drop Grodog :-)


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Post Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 10:40 pm 
 

Since it was mentioned, I do have some original Fritz Leiber correspondence.  While I'm certainly not a handwriting expert, the writing on the letters I have doesn't look anything like the handwriting on the cover of that Chainmail.  Probably a good thing that a premium wasn't paid for it.


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