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Originally Posted by nat
Also, enlighten someone who doesn't know anything about autographs: why are so many of them signed in blue sharpie?
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I’ve also noticed older players signing with sharpie because they don’t have to press as hard as they do with a pen. Though just as a fountain pen signature would look out of place on a modern card, I will usually avoid a sharpie signature on an old card if there is a pen one available instead.
To the OP’s question, I first got into vintage around 2006, when I bought a 1949 Bowman Bobby Doerr. I was telling the LCS owner about my plan to send it TTM, and he was shaking his head before I had finished my sentence. I lost that card a while later, but in 2014 I picked up a replacement and got that one signed. Around that same time, I was starting my 1953 Topps project, and I initially had some trepidation about getting cards signed, but then I figured if I was buying low grade commons for $3-4 each, then there wasn’t a whole lot of harm getting it signed could do.
02-08-2021, 10:45 AM
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