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jay behrensballs were shellaqued on a regular basis. Sadly, instead of preserving the signature, what it did was leach the ink out of the ball. If you chipped the shellaque, you lost that portion of the sig. I had a wonderful presentation game used ball from the 1923 WS signed by Ruth, McGraw, Huggins, Altrock and McQuillian. The owner decied to try and remove the shellaque becuase it was yellowing and cracking so bad. He ended up removing half the Huggins sig. It was the only signed baseball I ever owned that I didn't get signed in person.
Jay
I love pinatas. You get to beat the crap of something and get rewarded with candy.