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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BaseballGames, post: 588336, member: 7826&quot;]True, cluttered, but authentication is a tough gig.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to spot a poor forgery, but an expert one, not so much.&nbsp; What really hurts is having authentic signatures rejected as &quot;not authentic.&quot;&nbsp; Anyone&#039;s autograph changes drastically with the varying conditions of how rushed it is, the writing surface, the writing implement, and certainly the signer&#039;s age and health.&nbsp; Was the signer young and vigorous and sitting at a well-lit desk, using a quality pen to carefully inscribe one book or photograph for a friend?&nbsp; Was another autograph by the same person done when the signer was elderly and shaky or ill or drunk, standing outside under a streetlight in the rain, using a balky ballpoint to hurriedly sign multiple items for a crowd of fans?&nbsp; What does the authenticator have at hand as the standard comparison?&nbsp; Our own sigs today are all but unrecognizably different from how they were fifty, or thirty, or even ten years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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