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For what it's worth - Memory Lane Lot 1023
Posted By: Louis Despres
I find this a bit difficult to understand how this item could have received an accurate loa from PSA/DNA. View the scans, Mack must have been very good to exactly duplicate his autograph. Louis |
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Posted By: Chad
The pen even missed the indentations in the paper in the same places. Maybe the A's stunk for all those years because Mack was spending all his time on his autographs. |
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Posted By: leon
And we think there are problems in the card hobby. Autographs = tooth fairies....LOA, COA, BFD..... |
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Posted By: PAS
Have you alerted Memory Lane or PSA? |
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For what it's worth - Memory Lane Lot 1023
Posted By: E, Daniel
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Posted By: Louis Despres
I called about this lot the day I received their catalogue and was told they would look into it. It must have been 1 1/2 to 2 weeks ago. I may be mistaken, but I do not remember the line about the authentication of this lot originally being in the auction website discription prior to my phone call. p.s. I only bought mine because it had been signed across the chest, albeit now slightly faded. Louis |
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Posted By: David Atkatz
...PSA can't differentiate between a written signature and a printed facsimile. |
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Posted By: Joe D
wow. |
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Posted By: JK
Did they have autopens when mack would have signed that piece? More likely it a reproduction of an originally signed piece. Just curious Louis - am I correct that yours is an authentic autograph or is yours a reprint? |
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Posted By: E, Daniel
JK, I was thinking a more recent use of the autopen.....If the auto is just a facsimile, well that would just be incredulous that anyone at PSA could not tell the difference! But not impossible I guess. |
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Posted By: Louis Despres
The "autograph" in the margin, I believe is a facsimile which seems to have been printed with the image. The auto across Mack's chest is written in ink with a fountain pen, but I have never had it "authenticated". Louis |
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Posted By: Jason L
thanks for alerting us |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
I hadn't heard of Mack ever using an autopen. Autopens are rare in baseball, but are common with politicians. Beyond forgeries, the only thing you really have to worry about for baseball folks are stamped signature (easy to id, as they look like stamps not real writing) and secretarial signatures (again, won't look like the real sig). Of course, many baseball items have pre-printed signatures, but most realize that their 1971 Topps card wasn't actually autographed. |
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Posted By: Joe D
I think the fear is that someone other than Mack could use the autopen to create Mack's autograph (or anybody's autograph for that matter). |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
The key with an autopen is that it will make identical signatures. This is part of how people know when a signature is an autopen. It's an exact duplicate of one seen before. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
I don't think it was autopenned, I think it was printed along with the pic on the page. Not only does the signature match up, but it's located in the EXACT same position on the page. Looks to me like they're selling a printed signature as an autograph. |
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Posted By: Joe D
It looks like the difficult part is done. |
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Posted By: Joseph
Pathetic |
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Posted By: Matt
Is it at all possible that this is the original authentic signature that Louis copy was made from? |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
If someone posts here that JP is a cheat I'm sure that his caddy, the mortgage boy, will come in and explain it all. |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
Some people don't like their autographed photos or notes personalized to people |
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Posted By: Eric B
If you look at the second "n" you will notice a white speck halfway down where the ink didn't catch (indentation on the original). So it's a facsimile - not an autopen. |
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Posted By: Steve Murray
Matt asks a very interesting question. Any thoughts? |
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Posted By: Joseph
Perhaps the good folks over at Memory Lane will see this offering (and then the light) from the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society web site: |
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Posted By: dstudeba
Matt/Steve - |
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Posted By: DJ
It's not autopen, but a facsmilie signature and is it a surprise that "one of the top firms" authenticated it? It shouldn't be. |
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Posted By: Mark T
Memory Lane took out the LOA/COA from PSA---can't find it on the listing now!!! |
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Posted By: Jim VB
They still have a problem. I just checked my catalog and the authentication is still in there on page 134. I don't think they can fix that one. |
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Posted By: Mark T
I know the listing said LOA/COA from PSA early this afternoon. I wonder if next we will see the listing pulled. |
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Posted By: Joseph
You have to admit the online description is much improved with the deletion of the PSA |
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Posted By: Mark T
It sucks for the people who already bid on it, they could have got it for $8. |
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Posted By: Tim Newcomb
Seems appropriate in light of Barnum's famous saying, "There's a sucker born every minute." |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Yes Mark, but what fun would an $8 sale be for the auction house? 17.5% BP and 10% SP on eight bucks just doesn't cut it for Memory Lane. |
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Posted By: Steve Murray
No mention of LOA/COA from PSA but where in the F is the F word....FACSIMILE????? |
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Posted By: leon
autographs = tooth fairies....I believe in tooth fairies more.... |
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Posted By: Rand Brotman
What the hell is it going to take to get a governmental audit on this company & others?????? GEES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Posted By: dennis
if you look under the memory lane logo it says......AUCTION NAME: High Grade Card Auction and a Few Surprises....well here is one of the surprises. |
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Posted By: Chad
autographs = tooth fairies....I believe in tooth fairies more.... |
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Posted By: Matt
"I happen to have an autograph of the Tooth fairy for sale. Cheap, too!" |
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Posted By: Chad
So all is good. You can trust me! |
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Posted By: Joe D.
I am going to be down to just two: REA and Sloate. |
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Posted By: PAS
Given the inefficiencies of consigning (uncertainty, buyer's premiums, possible seller's premiums, delay, etc.) I am surprised so many auction houses seem to be able to remain competitive. |
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Posted By: Louis Despres
After Matt's post, I emailed for a scan of the reverse. Will keep you posted if I get a reply. Louis |
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Posted By: Richard Simon
I just saw the catalog auction page and the PSA-DNA logo is proudly displayed next to the Mack photo. |
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Posted By: dennis
it's even worse if they display the psa "seal of approval" if psa did not look at it. |
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Posted By: Joseph
We all should be proud: |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Error in the listing: "We said it was real when it was fake and then got caught unfortunately before it sold." |
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Posted By: Matt
certainly happy at the result, but it's embarrassing that there needed to be a thread with 50 posts to have it withdrawn after the mistake was recognized. |
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