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Originally Posted by doug.goodman
I enjoy mocking those who deserve it.
Turning a little money into a lot of money doesn't mean I won't mock, it just gives me more opportunities to mock. You can make a billion dollars selling these things with their fancy little labels and slabs, I will still think they are a cause for mockery, just as I mock every successive owner of the Wagner I posted earlier. Worth millions? Evidently. Mock-able? Abso-f**king-lutely.
Just because you got an opinion seller to give you an opinion does not make that opinion valid to me.
Just because the two of you are attempting to push :
It's type 1
It's original
It's authentic
It's one of a kind
Down our throats does not mean I believe it is all (or any) of those things.
I believe there is a chance that you made it, which would then make it three of those things.
Hitting pause on my mocking for a moment, I have four individual questions for you, each very similar so I will pose them as one question :
Regarding the Alomar item : how do you, or the opinion seller, know that it is each of those things? Type 1. Original. Authentic. One of a kind.
Answer those questions and I will potentially stop my mocking of you and anybody else who thinks these things are, as you say, a "New Photographic Collectible".
Doug "but probably not" Goodman
PS - look at all the weird stuff that I collect, I am as mock-able as anybody on this site
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I would agree that absolutely proving it's type 1, authentic, and one of a kind may be impossible. I suppose the best way would be to find the wire photo version of his original Alomar photo and match it up. I also think, like an autograph of, say, Buddy Bell, why forge it to begin with? It isn't worth $5, in my opinion, so what would be the point? And we all know practically any collectible can be faked.
If I understand correctly, what he's pushing is that he has the original wire photo before it was sent out. The one actually created by the specific newspaper that sent it out. I think, if it's a cool enough photo, there might be some added value there. Personally, I think the ones he showed are basically worthless. But if it's a Jordan photo? I think it might get more than the duplicated press photo would get, similar to having the original painting of one that was used to create a limited edition print run.
I have hundreds of press photos from the late 70's to the early 90's. I put them in 4 binders, displayed them at a garage sale and asked $1 apiece. I sold......two.
People collect barbed wire. To each his own.