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Posted By: scgaynor

Shelly, those other signatures on the 500 HR ball's are not "clubhouse", they are modern "forgeries". My point is that there is a difference. Facsimilies are also not "clubhouse", they are simply printed like a photocopy or rubber stamp. The autograph hobby does not use the term clubhouse in that way.

In response to Judge Dred:

The auction house style LOA is intended to act as a LOA for the buyer of the lot only. If the buyers wants to get individual LOA's for each item, that is up to them. Can you imagine how much time it would take to generate individual LOA's for each piece in some of those huge catalog auction lots. On a lot of 100 3 x 5 index cards, the LOA's themselves would cost $500-$1000 and that is if you could cut a sweet deal with the authenticator. What do you do with the lots of 500, 3000, or 10,000 pieces? Are you going to create individual LOA's for each Billy Champion, Garry Maddox and Geoff Zahn signed index card?

Scott