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Originally Posted by prewarsports
I have said this before and taken a beating on it but I still stand behind it. If you know what you are doing and are careful, autograph collecting is safer than card collecting. With autographs if you stick with the top dealers/sellers or collect vintage signed album pages still in the books and checks or contracts you are going to be safe 99%++ of the time...
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I agree. Autograph collecting can be very rewarding, fun and safe the vast majority of the time. For those of us -- I'm including myself in this category -- who collect the typical Mantle, Williams, DiMaggio, Koufax type material, with a little homework, networking and common sense you can avoid fakes.
When you wade into the deep end of the pool with super rare and expensive material, the risks increase exponentially. There are master forgers who can fool even the experts on occasion. But, this would be the case with
any high end collectible where big bucks come into play.