Question Framing a Grease Pencil Signature

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Steven6095

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I actually have an TRULEY authentic Erwin Rommel signature in my personal collection of WW2 signatures. I have had for a few years, but looking to frame it with a small print now.

Before someone says it - I understand why, but I am not a big fan of framing the copy and keeping the original in the dark....I get it, but not something I am a big fan of.

Anyway, the signature is on thin parchment / vellum type paper and is signed in grease pencil.

Any special considerations due to the grease pencil?
Is encapsulation with mylar out of the questions or is it okay??

Thanks
Steven

Just FYI - grease pencil was used because ink pens of the time would dry out in the heat of north Africa.
 
It's probably not a huge possibility but I suppose there could be some effect on the grease pencil mark with melinex right on it. If it withstood the heat of North Africa, it's probably pretty durable though. Could you not hinge it in the normal way, or is the substrate weak?

:cool: Rick
 
The signature is right at the top of the paper. How thin the paper is and where the signature is....unless the hinge is PERFECT....I will be very unhappy. The paper seems strong, just very very thin.

I think my idea is to do a tiny micro dot of wheat starch paste in the upper left and right corners to a piece of slightly oversized one ply, then I can mount the 1 ply. The dots and the pressure from the mat should be enough. The mat will also cover the very top corners just in case there is ANY see through.

Its for me anyway, if it ever slips, I can redo it.

Melinex is just giving me a funny feeling with the grease pencil.

***Hey unrelated - does grease pencil fade?????***
 
you use encapsulation, go with that non-glare stuff from attacheze----it really does 'disappear'!!!
 
The signature is likely to stand up to light, but the thin vellum paper is likely to contain lignin and additives (that make it look like vellum) which will degrade. Framing copies of signatures is the least painful form of preservation.


Hugh
 
Just as an aside:

I was watching a WWII movie recently and noticed that the officer signed documents with what appeared to be colored pencils. Any ideas why? My guess was that it would be easier to spot fakes or copies that way. Much in the way that some legal documents required signatures in blue ink, rather than black.
 
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