How can PSA/DNA authenticate this Al Pacino autograph?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIGNED-SCARFACE-AL-PACINO-AUTO-FRAMED-MOVIE...

I know that Pacino almost always gives an ugly autograph...but isn't this a stretch for PSA/DNA to authenticate?

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Permalink Reply by Peter Lougheed on December 1, 2011 at 5:42am

Ok, thanks. It just seems like this autograph might be easy to forge.

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Permalink Reply by Brick Hunter on December 1, 2011 at 10:35am

I believe these semi-autographs are a stretch to authenticate. Is that even a signature? Should it be authenticated as one? If it is genuinely written by Al Pacino, shouldn't it be sold as an Al Pacino doodle or something like that? When you can't make out one letter of their name, I'm not convinced that's a signature.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 2, 2011 at 4:20am

I think the point here, and I have tried to make it a few times before, is not whether or not it is his signature style, but how can it be authenticated. If I took a Pacino photo, scribbled on it (made an attempt to copy his doodle), would PSA pass that?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 2, 2011 at 8:41am

I don't think it would take a master forger to convincingly replicate one of these marks. "Signature" or not is besides the point, it is not "authenticatable" in my opinion.