Comments - Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators COA (GFA): What Methods Do They Use? Billy Martin Mantle Signed Photo - Autograph Live2024-03-19T08:57:09Zhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=3524372%3ABlogPost%3A1162296&xn_auth=noJason, you should do exactly…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-02-27:3524372:Comment:11787752018-02-27T06:05:09.611ZStevehttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/SteveKahldon
<p>Jason, you should do exactly that. When I had a special done at my house regarding forgeries in the industry, Florida stations picked it up and put it on the news. More attention needs to be brought to that area.</p>
<p>Jason, you should do exactly that. When I had a special done at my house regarding forgeries in the industry, Florida stations picked it up and put it on the news. More attention needs to be brought to that area.</p> Now that would be fun to watc…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-02-12:3524372:Comment:11724222018-02-12T16:59:40.230ZFuddjcalhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/Fuddjcal
<p>Now that would be fun to watch Jason.</p>
<p>Now that would be fun to watch Jason.</p> More great work Chris! I’m st…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-02-06:3524372:Comment:11703092018-02-06T10:45:26.860ZJason Charnickhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/JasonCharnick
<p>More great work Chris! I’m starting to get a real itchin to go to their office with a video camera and do some sort of exposé (it’s ok, i’m a filmmaker!). these guys need to start answering these questions publicly!</p>
<p>More great work Chris! I’m starting to get a real itchin to go to their office with a video camera and do some sort of exposé (it’s ok, i’m a filmmaker!). these guys need to start answering these questions publicly!</p> The point I have been making…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-02-01:3524372:Comment:11687652018-02-01T13:03:56.181ZCJCollectorhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/ChristopherWilliams
<p>The point I have been making for the last seven years writing about the <em>Florida</em> forgeries and <em>Forensics</em> is that Forensics has nothing to do with opining autographs.</p>
<p>The Florida forgeries, which I have been writing about for over seven years, are OBVIOUS forgeries and the majority of them have been mechanically-produced.</p>
<p>I have owned some of these pieces for years and I have known what they are right from the beginning.</p>
<p>All you have to do is handle the…</p>
<p>The point I have been making for the last seven years writing about the <em>Florida</em> forgeries and <em>Forensics</em> is that Forensics has nothing to do with opining autographs.</p>
<p>The Florida forgeries, which I have been writing about for over seven years, are OBVIOUS forgeries and the majority of them have been mechanically-produced.</p>
<p>I have owned some of these pieces for years and I have known what they are right from the beginning.</p>
<p>All you have to do is handle the paper to conclude that it is inkjet paper.</p>
<p>I simply used my ProScope to reinforce my findings about the paper.</p>
<p>It's really all just common sense.</p>
<p>As for the "autographs," they can be opined in one second as forgeries.</p>
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<p></p> you could probably find the m…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-02-01:3524372:Comment:11684502018-02-01T08:35:35.083Zmncnchttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/mncnc
<p><span>you could probably find the make and model of a pen.</span></p>
<p><span>Should say you could probably find the make and model of a pen from the ink.</span></p>
<p><span>you could probably find the make and model of a pen.</span></p>
<p><span>Should say you could probably find the make and model of a pen from the ink.</span></p> "No one will ever change my m…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-02-01:3524372:Comment:11684482018-02-01T08:33:20.278Zmncnchttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/mncnc
<p><span>"No one will ever change my mind that Forensics has nothing to do with opining autographs."</span></p>
<p><span>I am completely inexperienced and new here to boot, I am trying to figure out what I have, I inherited a large autograph collection, and this community has been of great help, I will probably tax them and they may get tired of me. I've had some fun gong through different posts, and I've learned a lot. </span></p>
<p><span>This is really interesting, but your statement above,…</span></p>
<p><span>"No one will ever change my mind that Forensics has nothing to do with opining autographs."</span></p>
<p><span>I am completely inexperienced and new here to boot, I am trying to figure out what I have, I inherited a large autograph collection, and this community has been of great help, I will probably tax them and they may get tired of me. I've had some fun gong through different posts, and I've learned a lot. </span></p>
<p><span>This is really interesting, but your statement above, I think I need to argue against it. You just did it, you used forensics to exclude an autograph from being real. Your analysis of the paper.</span></p>
<p>I think authenticating a signature is always going to be an art, forgive me please if I'm wrong, but excluding them, as you did with the ink jet paper, is forensics. </p>
<p>It would be fairly easy to build a database from known good samples about inks, for example, what their chemical composition is, with a large sample size you could probably find the make and model of a pen.</p>
<p>The problem with that is that it would be really expensive, first you build the database and then you check against it. Even to check against it, if it were me I would use a scanning electron microscope, and time on those is expensive. But you would get a fingerprint of the ink, every time.</p>
<p>I own a company that deals with atomic force microscopes, I've actually used one to look at a couple of my autographs, to see if the signature was part of the paper or on it. I have it so the time on the microscope is free to me, but again people who charge for it get a lot.</p>
<p>My opinion would be that forensics could have a lot to do with authenticating, or maybe excluding signatures but to do it right would be cost prohibitive. Unless you are looking at laser printer paper under an optical microscope, which I think was a great example of....... forensics.</p>
<p>Thank you for the interesting article.</p> LMFAO !!!!tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-01-17:3524372:Comment:11627662018-01-17T19:36:09.095Zgoodcathttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/goodcat53
<p>LMFAO !!!!</p>
<p>LMFAO !!!!</p> @Goodcat53 sez, "I get the im…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-01-17:3524372:Comment:11626212018-01-17T18:50:52.204ZSteve Zarellihttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/MrZipper
<p>@Goodcat53 sez, "<span>I get the impression that most of these dweeb scammers are some of the laziest people on our planet and wasting our good oxygen supplies."</span></p>
<p><span>Good point. Scamming people in-person takes some guts and there is the risk of getting smashed in the face. </span></p>
<p>@Goodcat53 sez, "<span>I get the impression that most of these dweeb scammers are some of the laziest people on our planet and wasting our good oxygen supplies."</span></p>
<p><span>Good point. Scamming people in-person takes some guts and there is the risk of getting smashed in the face. </span></p> I completely agree w/ you Ste…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-01-17:3524372:Comment:11627112018-01-17T18:00:13.327Zgoodcathttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/goodcat53
<p>I completely agree w/ you Steve, except this statement...</p>
<p>"<span>By then, these mass fake sellers will be long gone and onto the next scam... sealing old ladies driveways with used motor oil or selling timeshares to swampland in Florida, etc., etc."</span></p>
<p><span>I think you might be giving them too much credit. These occupations would require them to leave the house and their computer and actually do some kind of physical labor HA HAA</span></p>
<p><span>I get the impression…</span></p>
<p>I completely agree w/ you Steve, except this statement...</p>
<p>"<span>By then, these mass fake sellers will be long gone and onto the next scam... sealing old ladies driveways with used motor oil or selling timeshares to swampland in Florida, etc., etc."</span></p>
<p><span>I think you might be giving them too much credit. These occupations would require them to leave the house and their computer and actually do some kind of physical labor HA HAA</span></p>
<p><span>I get the impression that most of these dweeb scammers are some of the laziest people on our planet and wasting our good oxygen supplies. And now I know a few of these ebay lowlife's are actually reading these posts on AML. </span></p> Steve +1
CW
"No one will ever…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2018-01-17:3524372:Comment:11627042018-01-17T17:14:06.306ZFuddjcalhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/Fuddjcal
<p>Steve +1</p>
<p><span>CW</span></p>
<p><span>"No one will ever change my mind that Forensics has nothing to do with opining autographs."</span></p>
<p><span>LOL but Chris, forget that the letter formations are a mess and all identical, you proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that these GFA certed items are forgeries by using that big microscope!!! There's a new forensic guy on the block so watch OUT! LOL, just like our buddy Christopher Moralass.</span></p>
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<p>Steve +1</p>
<p><span>CW</span></p>
<p><span>"No one will ever change my mind that Forensics has nothing to do with opining autographs."</span></p>
<p><span>LOL but Chris, forget that the letter formations are a mess and all identical, you proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that these GFA certed items are forgeries by using that big microscope!!! There's a new forensic guy on the block so watch OUT! LOL, just like our buddy Christopher Moralass.</span></p>
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