Chris,
Thank you for posting those links. I don't go to AML that often. Even I could tell that multi-signed baseball was horrible. Who in their right mind would use an ultra thin Sharpie on a baseball? A regular one is bad enough.
There is this seller who is supposedly from Italy, though they have set up another account that is from the Netherlands, I believe, who lists these very desirable and rare Olympic autographs. All are forgeries. The clue for them is that they use pencil and colored pencil. If you look hard enough at some of the listings you can see erasure marks. I find very few pre-WWII Olympic signatures in pencil, most are in fountain pen. They slip in some possibly legitimate signatures which could lead people to believe all of their listings are real. They purchase MOH recipients and some other military types and triple the listing price. They also slip in some forged military, especially WWII Germans.
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Last edited by Michael B; 05-19-2018 at 05:02 PM.
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