Distinguished experts. Can you please tell where you can see the signature Altman ? By showing the work restorer, we agreed on the opinion that the signature on the job there, but too bad it can be seen . Half an hour looking through a microscope, but to no avail . There is an idea , with the help of various filters for the camera trying to photograph it . Maybe someone on the forum have experience in how best to photograph ?
thank you

Try to find a company that has a scanner, which is not broaching, and photographed from above, there are lamps with full lighting, no glare and distortion, and high resolution, eg.
2400 dpi or more.

Here Altman signature on the famous lithographs of the 20th , and a fake plate with this topic .


PS: This is probably part of the lithograph , colored pencil <! - ~ 3 ~ ->. It happens.

In 1921, an album of 10 drawings , "Lenin . Drawings and the cover of
Natan Altman . - St. Petersburg : The publication of the Division of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat of Education , 1921 "( edition of 5000 copies . ). If we assume that it includes the best images , the proposed sale to the clearly different from them , especially the most of their completeness and the presence of background - m . is still " better." Moreover, all Landscape signed lower right: " Moscow Kremlin Nat.Altman May 1920 ." So it's not the kind of documentary images.

Lenin
 

Good day! Today has found time to scan this picture. Thank you all for your advice. On the scan clearly readable signature or is my imagination? <! - ~ 9 ~ ->.
 If I was not dreaming , the signature is cut off after the capital letter A.
This picture was stored in a frame , a photo which I enclose . Perhaps the picture was cut off by it, that does not explain the full signature. It is possible , as my grandfather was familiar with Lenin and was a military commander , he wore the portrait of a <! - ~ 3 ~ ->

On account of lithography it , how it does not look at the lithograph ... See photo paper. Yes, and my grandmother , whose inscription behind the picture, do not put the date in question would be whether it is a lithograph .

You're right, my job is very similar to the well-known part of the picture you have posted in this thread.
Straight one to one, except that the signature in a different place ....
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It is this edition will be sold at auction Shapiro :


Gene Shapiro Auctions, LLC
506 East 74th Street
New York, NY 10021

Lot 228

1921 Natan Altmann Lenin Sketches Book Russian

NATAN ISAEVICH ALTMAN (1889-1970). "Lenin." [Lenin: Sketches]. 233 x 190 mm. Peterburg: Izdaniye otdela Izobrazhitelnykh iskusstv narodnogo komissariata po prosveshcheniiu, 1921. Contains 10 lithographed full page portraits of Lenin by Natan Altman, title page, frontispiece with Lenin's facsimile signature, and table of contents at end. Stylized cover illustration by Altman.

Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Start - $ 500

In your situation , ksenjaru, having this book in hand, you can answer the many questions raised in this thread.

Thank you, dear true. Start , I think, will depend on the absentee rates and number of registered participants in the phone to this item . After seeing the history of sales of the album , get it for less than $ 1,000 with all commissions, taxes , etc. , can be considered a success !