Money is no object

[murphusa]

Some poor soul will think they hit a jackpot

Amazing that the whole thing is tarnished except where they just engraved it.



http://cgi.ebay.com/LOU-GEHRIG-1936-...item2a0e8806f2

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-AWARD-BA...item2a0e87d6fe

[pgellis]

Saw those this morning and thought the same thing as you. I own a trophy shop and do engraving every day. You can tell that this was machine engraved and not hand engraved, which would be all that was available back in the day.

[khkco4bls]

i asked if the engraving machine was included

[pgellis]

Originally Posted by khkco4bls

i asked if the engraving machine was included

Now that would be a good deal........an average engraving machine is about $20,000 today.

[D. Bergin]

Hi, My name is Babe Ruth. I just won the MVP Award, and all I got was this stupid plate.

[khkco4bls]

you wont believe this. They wrote back, and i quote. No this is just for plate. I dont have a machine , Im sure you can buy one on ebay... oh brother.

[gnaz01]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Hi, My name is Babe Ruth. I just won the MVP Award, and all I got was this stupid plate.

And I am going to Disney World

[John V]

And now we have bids - bidder has zero feedback. Hmmm???

[GrayGhost]

I saw that too. Its awesome when you can still find Museum quality historical artifacts on the bay these days..

[TheSquire]

Originally Posted by John V

And now we have bids - bidder has zero feedback. Hmmm???

Unfortunately, the Bay will never be cleansed of these criminals. They militantly operate under the over of Caveat Emptor and a sucker is born every minute.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by TheSquire

Unfortunately, the Bay will never be cleansed of these criminals. They militantly operate under the over of Caveat Emptor and a sucker is born every minute.

I am no lawyer but I don't think you can "caveat emptor" your way out of fraud...which is a lot of what goes on, on ebay.

[hcv123]

Just sent a question - telling him I'm REALLY interested and asked him to post a scan of the "makers mark" on the plate. Certainly an MVP award from sterling silver - my guess is whoever did this one - clearly didn't waste their money on sterling when they could defraud using silver plate or "silver colored metal :-) Hoping he posts his response to save some poor soul.

[sports-rings]

I find ebay so difficult to deal with. Many times I have alerted them to bogus championship rings on their site. Each time, my requestes and alerts were ignored. I guess I am not considered a power user and my emails fall on deaf ears.

I put these two auctions on my website as an alert to collectors. Hopefully it will help.

You can check it out at: http://sportscollectingnews.com/

[RichardSimon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Sold for $717 and $499,,, some people will just never learn,,, some idiot actually thinks he got Lou Gehrig's MVP award for $717.

[GrayGhost]

Richard, I can't feel sorry for people who are that dumb. DO THE RESEARCH before buying an obvious fake.

[pgellis]

Looks like the same guy bought both "awards".

As I said before, I am 100% convinced that the engraving was done by a machine and we know that there weren't any engraving machines like that back in those days.

My engraver is running right now.........I guess I should go over to the antique mart and pick up some silver plates and start engraving

[ramram]

It just amazes me how there seems to be such a disproportionate number of scammers located in the south Ohio, Kentucky, North Tennessee region.

Rob M.

[RichardSimon]

Looks like a case for US Marshal Raylan Givens