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w7imel
09-10-2014, 03:16 PM
Any thoughts or concerns on this one? Im guessing something is off or wouldnt have sold for 256 dollars? Any pointer are helpful. Not looking to buy this just wanted to be a little more educated on what I am looking for.
Thanks
mike

Lordstan
09-10-2014, 03:19 PM
I would be willing to bet it's a photo copy. Maybe if you added $7000 to that amount it might be real.

Scott Garner
09-10-2014, 03:25 PM
I would be willing to bet it's a photo copy. Maybe if you added $7000 to that amount it might be real.

$10,000- $12,000 more

w7imel
09-10-2014, 03:34 PM
what I thought as well. Auction said it was purchased at "estate sale" what else is it going to say I suppose. haha. Not like he could put "My wife was bank teller the day Christy cashed this check and decided to keep it 103 years to sell on ebay for 300 bucks"

tazdmb
09-10-2014, 04:38 PM
I think that is the fake from collossel auctions

Bpm0014
09-10-2014, 08:27 PM
The crossing of the T in Oct is different than the crossing of the T in the fake signature...

dgo71
09-10-2014, 10:44 PM
Doesn't look like a copy to me, but there are some pretty evident pools of ink where it appears the person writing started and stopped, which is usually a telltale sign of a forgery done by someone carefully trying to copy the signature.

David Atkatz
09-10-2014, 11:19 PM
Drawn, and drawn poorly. The document itself is nothing like the checks Mathewson used, and it is filled out in a style not Mathewson's.

Except for that, it's fine.

tazdmb
09-11-2014, 06:41 AM
I knew it, we have discussed this very autograph at length before, stay away:

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=142986&highlight=colossal

perezfan
09-11-2014, 07:57 PM
Not even remotely close. How it should look...