Is it real ? – A question that every reliable collector of handwriting and fan is asking himself again and again when looking at his autographs, but he will not find an answer without basic background knowledge, experience and intuition, which is neccessary.

Autographs have been forged for over 200 years, either through authorized signatures of secretaries, occured in the 18. century by the French king Louis XIV, who let secreties sign with his name, or frauds , who were in the 19. century up to mischief already and circulated thousands of forges of historic personalities in the English speaking space.

In the beginning / middle of the 1990's a worldwide boom of collecting autographs took place and countless frauds exploited the inexperience and partly the unsophistication of the collectors and fans. Especially since the world wide distribution of the Internet and the anonymity connected to it, it is made easy for them to circulate their forgeries thousandfold.

With the autograph expertise service “Isitreal?“ you are now given the possibility, to check the authenticity of your autographs. Collectors with long years of experience and professional autograph dealers came together in a forum of experts. These experts have substantiated knowledge of  their respective fields and in summary, the eight members of the forum of experts can count on over 200 years of “consolidated autograph knowledge”

Autographs, which are send to us in order to proof their authenticity, are examined and based upon experience analysed and compared. There are three different expertises, with corresponding analyses available.

Alongside the service of expertise with costs you can find on these pages many further helpful links and news referring to forged autographs, comparisons of signature, studies on known signatures of secretaries, stamps, autopen and more detected forged autographs free of charge.


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