Authenticity

Whether you are a dedicated collector or intending to buy an item as a gift, the most important factor in purchasing an autographed item is, of course, ensuring its authenticity. One solution to this problem is to buy only from reputable dealers, like SbtSAutographs.com who offer a lifetime guarantee of authenticity and provide Certificates of Authenticity for every item sold.

It is a sad fact that the vast majority of autographs that appear on internet auction sites are fakes and that is why their prices always appear to be extremely good. If something looks too good to be true then unfortunately, that is usually the case.

SbtSAutographs.com only sell autographs obtained 'in-person' or sourced from a very small number of personally vetted and trusted professional sources. No item sold by us will have been obtained by writing to the celebrity or via an internet auction site.

• Many factors are taken into consideration before SbtSAutographs authenticate any item. A personality will develop certain idiosyncrasies of signing; whether in the position of a signature on a photograph or adding a typical inscription.
• Autopen can be recognised by the trained eye as the machine has problems with straight lines and thus produces 'squiggles'.
• Finally, and perhaps most obviously, one must always be on the look out for obvious mistakes. The spelling of names, dates of signatures obtained after a celebrity's death etc. Whilst an early photograph can bear an example of a later signature obviously a photograph taken in later years cannot bear an early signature.

Every item we offer for sale is covered by the SbtSAutographs.com Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity so you can buy from us with complete confidence. In the unlikely event that any signature provided is proven to be non-authentic, we will, upon request, refund the full original purchase price to the original owner of the item provided that it is returned to us together with the sales invoice and in the same condition as when it was sold.

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