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> I still don't understand why you needed this autograph pencil?

To trick people into opening their junk mail, because they think it's a letter from a human.



Ah yes.

I have gotten these before, but not produced this way. The ones I got looked like they were written by an underpaid employee.

They have had signature machines for years though. The Kennedy's used them a lot.

The only thing I would experiment with this project is adding significant error, and randomness to the writing. It would look more realistic?

On a personal note, when I get these (Anderson Painting likes this approach.); I throw away the ad away immediately, or if printed on good stock paper--I save to pick up dust.


Pick up dust, that's an interesting comment. How does stock paper help with that?


Not sure if it's the same thing, but heavy cardstock is great at collecting dust off a flat surface - for some reason it sticks to the edge.




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