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Originally Posted by thetruthisoutthere
That's why when I observe and opine an autograph, I only look at the autograph.
I do not allow any other "distraction" when opining an autograph.
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I'm amazed at what the people who are really familiar with the signatures can do in that way.
For me, that stuff takes a long time to learn I just passed a decade of reading stuff here, and still can only get the big ones like Mantle and Ruth right a bit over half the time. Probably still in the coin toss range.
What for me is quick are the distractions, so I always start with those. Is the object "right"? Did it exist while the signer was alive? Does it make any sense at all?
What's odd is that I can eliminate quite a few that way.
I also don't buy any expensive ones, which helps. But odds are even some of my cheap ones are fake in some way.