Share your unusual tips/tricks for analyzing an autograph for authenticity

[shelly]

I am really dumb founded. In the early nineties every forger in the country would go to antique stores and buy old blank autograph books that dated back to the early 1900 hundreds. Then they would sign every name you could think of with old ink and fountain pens that where purchased at the same place. Most of the forgers where not as they good as they are now because no one had any idea that it was not authentic. That also included old blank baseballs, bats and anything else they could sign. Hence we now have the TPA"S. Who twenty year ago didn't know there a-s from a hole in the ground.

You want a tip on how to know if something is bad or good. If it is to good to be true don't buy it. Every expert on this board will tell you they have been fooled. You are the one buying the item so its always up to you.

[prewarsports]

Agreed Shelly but what people are doing now is taking album pages with 5-10 good signatures and adding one or two at the bottom, so I was saying dont look at a page and assume the Ruth is good just because Jimmie Dykes and Wes Ferrell and a bunch of other low value guys ARE good.

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by shelly

Every expert on this board will tell you they have been fooled.

Every expert but one.

[Sean1125]

If it has a PSA/DNA sticker that means I don't need to analyze it....

RIGHT?

Well I guess I'm out of tricks sorry guys.

[jgmp123]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

If it has a PSA/DNA sticker that means I don't need to analyze it....

RIGHT?

Well I guess I'm out of tricks sorry guys.

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

If it has a PSA/DNA sticker that means I don't need to analyze it....

RIGHT?

Well I guess I'm out of tricks sorry guys.

the PSA sticker IS the trick!