Nice Ruth signature and story

[Deertick]

This guy lives 6 miles from me. Crime does not pay (much) in his case.

http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com...ison-sentence/

"Investigators say Szakaly's use of baseballs made by manufacturers who didn't start producing them until after Ruth's death also helped them determine the autographs couldn't be real."

[JimStinson]

Feathering Usually follows the Tarring so that the feathers have something to stick to

[JimStinson]

Seriously..the feathering referred to in regards to the Babe Ruth ball on this thread would have likely occured as a result of the forger , either using sandpaper or emory to remove any markings that would ID the ball as being POST 1948 (when Ruth died) ,
So simply put ..under magnification the area around the signatures would look like small rivers (or feathers) due to the rate of absorbtion of new ink applied to a recently reconditioned surface.
On OLD items the ink absorbed would appear more like a Halow around the signature when looked at under a "scope".