[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by Mark17

A lot of collectors have a mixture of genuine and fake stuff. For example, I have a number of genuine game used flannels, and I also have Mitchell & Ness "fakes" of 1968 Detroit Denny McLain and 1966 Baltimore Brooks Robinson. I recently acquired a GU Tony Horton bat, and then got a custom (fake) 1967 Topps card to display with it. I also have a T205 reprint set, and a few modern copies of 1960s wire photos.

There have been auctions at the Hillerich & Bradsby factory, and I thought it might be possible some of their genuine items, like the Clemente bat order page and the Aaron contract, might have been sold by the company at some point, much like the Topps vault auctions/sales.

I agree, overall, this guy's posts are mostly bogus, with that multi-million dollar (if genuine) Wagner casually included in the pictures. But I disagree that a few genuine items couldn't exist along with the junk. I'm just not willing, based on bad scans, to positively dismiss it all. Other people, with more knowledge than me, can make that assertion if they want.

I haven't seen anything real yet and the fakes I have seen are deceptive fakes. That is a really horrible combo for finding legitimate grail items. I've never heard of an amazing find amidst forgeries in this hobby. That's why I said the odds are so close to impossible that I call it impossible. But I guess like almost anything, there's however many hundred zeros before a 1 in .01% that can turn up a miracle.