The media did not report the story accurately when the boy gave Perry back the ring.
There are so many William Perry salesman samples floating around in that silly ring size of 23 which is more like a paperweight than a ring to be worn.
The young boy purchased a salesman sample, not Perry's real ring. His real ring would have sold for tens of thousands, not under $4,000 as was reported.
The salesman sample rings do not contain real diamonds. So the boy gave Perry a salesman sample.
Furthermore, anyone could take a salesman sample and load it up with real diamonds and proclaim it's the authentic ring from the player. That's one reason I would dread to spend a lot of money buying a championship ring that has so many salesman sample versions in the market place.
I am not saying that the cosigner or the auction house did this, or know of this, but I wonder if the ring comes with proof that this was Perry's ring. And I wonder how concrete that proof is.
It was common knowledge in the collectiong community that Perry sold his ring a long time ago, so I wonder if this was Perry's original ring or one he had made later on, or like I said earlier, a common salesman sample that has had it's imitation diamonds replaced with real ones.
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