autograph restoration question

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Posted By: davidcycleback

An answer is with autographs there are dark signatures and there are light signatues, and that's the way it is.

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Going off of this thread, I would like to see if anybody can shed some light on how they actually do go about restoring signatures on a ball (not necessarily re-tracing it). I have a signed team ball with most of the sigs fading except the Ted Williams, which is very dark for some reason. I've always been suspicious of it, but it otherwise looks like his sig. I'm wondering if it was "enhanced" somehow but it doesn't appear to be traced over. I looked at it closely with my loupe and it just doesn't look traced but I can't understand why it's the only dark signature on the whole ball. Did Williams sign it with a pen that had very high quality ink compared to the other players?? The signature is definitely the way he signed during that era, so it couldn't have been added much later. Any thoughts?

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Scott, that Ty Cobb is unbelievable. Still for sale? Trade?