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Originally Posted by flatout
You would have to think that he signed all 2,900... which is unlikely. It is possible though... just not practical.
Also, good luck with you sale  |
That's why I under estimated it as even 500 is a large number to ask someone on a salary or wage of 40,000 to spend there time doing
Yes I know they only take 3 seconds each
20*3seconds =1 minute
So 500 would take 25 minutes non stop
And 2900 *3 seconds= 8700 seconds or 145 minutes
Which is over 2 hours non stop, if I was paid more then 30k a year I would refuse to sign signature for anything more then 5 minutes total per day, as it is expected talhat you may need too sign the odd piece of paperwork on a day by day basis
Lithographs on the other hand, I am still unsure as to whether they are hand signed or auto signed, I mean; the print runs of 60 I can imagine those being hand signed, but print runs of 160 is about the limit I could imagine an artist signing, and 500 is a touch imaginative, it all depends on what actually adds the value to the item, is it the hand signed by the person who "owns" the signature?
Is it the signature itself (in which case an autosign is identical to the artist signature but has the benefit/disadvantage (depending which way you look at it) of being identical for every single sign) or a stamp that is an identical looking signature but just a rubber stamp
Or a facsimile which is just a digital print with ink and a printer from an original digital file
All have a lot more value then a forgery, but its all down to individual taste as is collecting as a whole, and I am not trying to devalue anything, I'm more trying say be careful and don't put to much emphasis on anything unless you have absolute proof