Authentication Service

It’s a service provided by the RICA Autograph, that enables you to get an opinion from our forensic document examiners as to the genuineness of your item. An Online Authentication is a service that covers the obvious characteristics of handwriting such as letter formations, spacing, slant, line quality, measurement of slant and spacing, patterns, proportions, connections, and the initial and terminal stroke formations, etc.

We do this for the love of the items, we will gladly accept a scan of your item an evaluate it at no cost.  This is not as extensive as hands on authentication but would be willing to have you ship your item to us as well.

How we do this: Like most current authentication we use line matching and we examine each and every component and letter of an autograph, paying close attention to characteristics such as signature flow, style, spontaneity, letter angle, side-by-side comparisons, object evaluation.

We also have many tools at our disposal including a Video Spectral Comparator which uses sophisticated color and infrared imaging, magnification, coaxial lighting, side lighting, and on-screen, side-by-side or overlaid autograph comparisons.

We offer this free service and cut our overhead by using a inexpensive advertising, free web hosting, and word of mouth.  We are a group of over 25 fans of films, with years of authenticating our own items.   Sadly most come back as blatantly fake, this is a necessary evil in the collecting game.  This does not mean the person you obtained it from is at fault, as it has generally been sold to them as well.

We are fans of films and memorabilia  and as such do our very best to keep the quality of this wonderful past time. Because of our specialty in movies and film we cannot not guarantee accurate results with sports or music memorabilia.

Feel free to contact us at AuthRICA@gmx.com