Signed ball -Authenticity an issue
Yes, the authenticity is in question. In a very big way !! This is a facsimile stamped baseball. The strange thing about it is some one has "traced over" some of the facsimile stamped "signatures" to make them a darker black and try to make them more authentic looking. The only real signature is the one signature in blue which appears to be " Mike Shannon". The Lou Brock signature is traced over with a blue sharpie or marker.....and I'm not so sure the facsimile sig under it is a machine stamped Brock. The blue sharpie does a better job of obliterating the underlying name than the black sharpie or marker.
I never thought about it but a forger could take a facsimile stamped "signature" ball and go over the signatures with a blue sharpie and make it appear to be a more legitimate signed ball.
Steve Rhodes
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