How To Check For Authentic Autographs
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
Enthusiastic fans of all types of entertainment and the movie world have always enjoyed collecting celebrity autographs. Political figures may provide valuable autographs if they were particularly popular or rare. There are people who are prepared to spend a lot of money adding names to their autograph collection. The majority of autograph collectors just enjoy the fun of obtaining celebrity autographs and building their collection.
If you check the prices similar autographs are being sold for elsewhere you will have a good guide to their value. It is important to make sure that any autograph you are buying or selling is an authentic autograph. If you see something being offered at an unusually low price it may be that it is suspect. You should learn the ways that can help prove that you are dealing with the real thing.
The best way to check an autograph is to compare it with one you know is genuine. If you find the two are exactly alike it is probably a fake since no one ever signs their name exactly the same way each time. Your signiture will never be exactly the same and while it may look very similar there will be small differences. A genuine autograph will have indentaions where the pen was used. If you cannot see any sign of them it may be the autograph has been printed onto the picture rather than genuinly signed. There are lots of people who are more than happy to buy a copy but they can expect to pay a lot less than the genuine autograph would cost.
The more information you have about a particular celebrity autograph the better you will be able to judge it’s value. Checking a rare autograph can be difficult because they are not easy to obtain but if it is real it could be valuable. Not every cheap signature is real and if you bought one cheaply you should check to see if it is authentic. There is the chance that the person selling had no knowledge of the value.
Paying top prices is not always a guarantee of it being genuine as there are a lot of scammers around. Avoid the temptaion to either buy or sell autographs without doing some research as you could easily be taken for a mug.
