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Originally Posted by SteveS
So here's a question I have for everybody. If you paid $1.4 million for this photograph, would you want to then pay for an ink analysis to find out for sure whether the writing was done in 1911 and the signature and place/date are in the same ink? Or would you rather not do that, to avoid the chance of finding out that you just spent a lot of money on something written in 2011?
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I’d normally expect such a thing was already baked into the authentication process…but of course it was not.
Still wouldn’t establish Joe vs Katie vs someone else back then, but obviously would at least rule out a modern forgery.
Have read different descriptions as to whether auto is in pencil or pen. Can anyone clarify?