Reading faded signature using enhanced light?

[doug.goodman]

Does anybody have an Invisible Man autograph available for my Super Heros collection?

Doug

[yanksfan09]

Yeah, at some point when signatures are this faded, it starts to just become an old baseball.

It got me thinking: Do you think it may be better, when a ball or something else is this faded, to have it professionally restored/enhanced?

Maybe it could be authenticated first, then enhanced with full disclosure. I hate any altered signatures, but in cases like this I would think putting more ink on it would be the only way to save it in the long term. Just a bit more age or light exposure on an item like this and there will be absolutely nothing left.

I think if I owned the ball I would want to restore it so that it wouldn't die a slow death and fade into oblivion.....thoughts?

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

PSA and JSA own expensive machines (around $25K) called video spectral comparators. They're incredible at making faded signatures glow like Christmas lights using various filtrations. VSCs are also wonderfully adept at detecting painted-over signatures on so-called "single-signed" balls.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Does anybody have an Invisible Man autograph available for my Super Heros collection?

Doug

FUNNY!!