[travrosty]

True story Donavon, similar to yours in many ways.

I bought a cut off of ebay of Tom Sharkey, old time heavyweight boxer.

When I received the signature, I thought it looked funny, it looked 'flat', like it was a reproduced signature out of an old magazine ad, etc. It looked like a printed copy.

I wanted to confirm my suspicions so out of everyone I know which is a lot of people I decided to send it to someone that would take time and do a thorough job, I sent it to Richard Simon.

He confirmed it that it wasn't an original signature and sent it back to me. I still have it, I didn't burn it. It won't enter the hobby, but I have it for reference in case other boxing collectors run across something similar in the future. That's how we learn and grow as a collecting community, not destroying evidence and leaving future generations to guess if something similar rears its ugly head at a later date.