Few years back my dad pulled a few books out an old funeral home that was falling apart and managed to find a signed copy of a book by F.D.R. In our desire to authenticate the signature I learned a few things.
First get a magnifying glass, look closely at the signature. You want to look for bleeding arround the signature, this is from the ink soaking into the page, and means that the siganture wasnt printed with the book. Some people would say "well duh" but on some types of paper it can be difficult to tell.
Next look at he ink in the signature itself, it you can see lines in it (following the signature) that means it was a hand signed book, if not its had a signature stamp used on it.
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Date: 2007-04-07 07:48 pm (UTC)First get a magnifying glass, look closely at the signature. You want to look for bleeding arround the signature, this is from the ink soaking into the page, and means that the siganture wasnt printed with the book. Some people would say "well duh" but on some types of paper it can be difficult to tell.
Next look at he ink in the signature itself, it you can see lines in it (following the signature) that means it was a hand signed book, if not its had a signature stamp used on it.