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Post Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:00 am 
 

Hoping someone can confirm something for me.  I came across 1991, 1992, 1994 TSR Xmas cards "signed" by Lorraine Williams.
To me it looks like 1991 & 1992 are stamped signatures, but 1994 is a real signature(albeit only her first name).
Would anyone happen to have a copy of any of these to confirm my hypothesis?

  

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Post Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:18 am 
 

seodude wrote in Lorraine Williams "Signed" TSR Christmas Cards:Hoping someone can confirm something for me.  I came across 1991, 1992, 1994 TSR Xmas cards "signed" by Lorraine Williams.
To me it looks like 1991 & 1992 are stamped signatures, but 1994 is a real signature(albeit only her first name).
Would anyone happen to have a copy of any of these to confirm my hypothesis?

I thought she couldn't hold a pen on account of the claws.


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Post Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 8:19 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in Lorraine Williams "Signed" TSR Christmas Cards:I thought she couldn't hold a pen on account of the claws.


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Post Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 1:59 pm 
 

It surprises me a bit that Lorraine would have signed anything.  From just about everything I've read about her - and from what those who worked directly with her have reported - she despised the hobby and gamers in general.  And didn't feel that much different about her employees at TSR.  Given that it seems uncharacteristic of her to sign something for a fan -  much less give out personally signed holiday cards to a bunch of artists and game designers working on the game she hated.

When you say Christmas cards, do you mean like, corporate cards for the employees?  Or some kind of promotion?  Corporate cards I could believe, and in that case I bet they were just stamped and mailed out by an underling, just based on reports about her personality.


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Post Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:02 pm 
 

It was her card to Santa with her demands on it.
She'd got bored with the corporate play set her father had bought her the year before.


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Post Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:53 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in Lorraine Williams "Signed" TSR Christmas Cards:It was her card to Santa with her demands on it.
She'd got bored with the corporate play set her father had bought her the year before.


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