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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Although I also do not have any of my doggies in the memorabilia fight, it sure is an interesting one. It seems from my vantage point of a casual, mostly disinterested observer, that a desireable grading element for memorabilia is the degree of certainty associated with the Authenticity.

That is: "We are 2% certain it is a DiMaggio streak bat"
We are 90% certain that it is a Dimaggio era bat
We are 70% certain it is a bat delivered to DiMaggio, etc

These can be stated, and a buyer deserves to know how uncertain an authentication is.

The DiMaggio streak bat which may never have even been swung by a right handed batter, yet draw bids over $ quarter mil. should have this qualifier, or a similar one stated. Any company who refuses to offer substantiation of their opinions is not going to last, IMHO.

But like I say, that is a different fight. We are in comparible safer waters if we stick with cards.