[meteorite-list] Signing Specimen Cards

From: Meteorite Mania! <meteoritemania_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 08:50:18 -0800
Message-ID: <AANLkTinzL0mAO_YXHfvXrSq44-PJb4qZb_FS6N3XPzDu_at_mail.gmail.com>

Signing the cards is just another step in fraud protection, but as
anyone who appreciates collecting autographs understands, signatures
are very easy to forge, and most all fake signatures are accompanied
by a "certificate of authenticity". While it would make it more
difficult to reproduce, if someone so desired to fake the specimen
cards with signatures, it would not be a difficult undertaking.

That said, specimen cards are absolutely essential to record keeping,
provenance, and chain of custody, but caution should always be
exercised, with any "signature" or certificate of authenticity.

Just a thought,

Ty Williams
Received on Sat 05 Mar 2011 11:50:18 AM PST