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sharrowblade

Odd one I know, .........but does anyone know why clubs stopped having the secretaries name on tickets towards the end of the 80s/early 90s.
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mcfc56 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 53 Location: Lancashire

I would hazard a guess that originally the signature was intended to be an anti-forgery measure but as printing and copying technology progressed this became redundant and clubs preferred to use embedded features such as watermarks (and more recently barcodes or microchips) in the tickets.

Guest · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:32 pm Post subject:

mcfc56 wrote:

I would hazard a guess that originally the signature was intended to be an anti-forgery measure but as printing and copying technology progressed this became redundant and clubs preferred to use embedded features such as watermarks (and more recently barcodes or microchips) in the tickets.

Thank you for the reply, I suspect you may be right. Cheers Sharrow

sharrowblade · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:55 pm Post subject:

As above, not sure how I managed the above post Confused

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