Editing Autograph collecting (section)

===Secretarial signatures===

Celebrities sometimes authorized secretaries to sign their correspondence. In the early months of [[World War II]], U.S. Army Chief of Staff [[George C. Marshall]] felt obligated to sign every condolence letter sent to the families of slain soldiers. But as the death rate increased, he was forced to assign an assistant to forge his signature to the letters. The surrogate signatures were hard to distinguish from the originals. General [[Douglas MacArthur]] rarely signed a WWII condolence letter personally and all of his letters to families were signed by one of two assistants who tried hard to duplicate his signature but the forged signatures were distinguished by an unusually high letter "l" and a skinny "D". During the early stage of the Korean War, MacArthur personally signed condolence letters. As the fatalities increased, the General began to use letters with pre-printed signatures.

In the 1952 U.S. presidential election, General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] often had secretaries forge his name to campaign letters and "personally inscribed" autographed photographs.

Player signatures on baseballs and footballs that are actually signed by coaches and ballboys are called clubhouse signatures.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/how-to-determine-the-difference-between-a-real-and-fake|title=How to Determine the Difference Between a Real and Fake Autograph: Terminology and Photo Examples|last=Gee|first=Cee|date=3 October 2011|website=Autograph Live|access-date=18 September 2016}}</ref>