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Old 03-07-2017, 04:46 PM
btcarfagno btcarfagno is offline
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Originally Posted by packs View Post
Even on that one the bottom of the F tails backwards. The one in the first pic is a straight vertical line.
Correct, but the pen stroke is exactly the same starting above the next letter looping and going down, then a separate stroke to finish. That is not a normal pen stroke for a capital letter F. Also that "uck" is "sucker" and the "ck in..well...that other word...they are pretty much exact matches to the handwriting in my ball. Even the "You" is pretty much an exact match from mine to the slabbed F-U example above.

I don't think we can dismiss the entire ball due to the capital F and a limited number of exemplars when there is an exemplar that shows it to be valid.

Unless the c-sucker ball is a fake and mine is done by the same forger. That is certainly possible. But to me, the c-sucker ball and mine were written in the same hand. Either both are Mantle or both were done by the same forger.

And I am not trying to be difficult here. I found the c-sucker example after I had researched it and finding it convinced me that it could very well be genuine. If the c-sucker ball is genuine anyway.

Tom C

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