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Posted By: <b>Richard S. Simon</b><p>1 - We did not authenticate items based on scans. We stated items were not authentic based on scans. All items we felt had a chance at being authentic were examined in person. Anybody familar with Hall of Fame autographs should be able to turn down blatantly bogus items based on scans. Experienced autograph dealers do this every single day.<br />2 - How do you happen to know the names of the three parties involved in your allegation that Mr Jaffe was discussing employment in the hobby. Did Mr Jaffe contact these people and then these people immediately stated "geez, I have to let Chris Morales know about this". I have no knowledge of anybody in the hobby who knows about Mr Jaffe looking for employment in the hobby. Nobody has stepped forward on this forum, which I believe has received a lot of publicity, to state that Mr Jaffe discussed employment with them. You stated you desired a forum in which to reveal these names. According to my dictionary a forum is:<br />"A public meeting or assembly for open discussion." Then you turn around and say subject to a confidentiality agreement you will reveal their names. A forum is PUBLIC and OPEN. If your statement regarding this matter is true, then please prove it.<br />3 - Mr Koschal and myself were hired by Bill Daniels and deposed in a court case last year, Bill Daniels vs Mastronet. The judge did not feel that Mr Koschal and I were scientifically trained, we are not, and based solely on Indiana law, he did not allow our testimony. The law in New York State is different and I was declared an expert witness by the presiding judge, prior to my testimony, in a criminal case in Nassau County in the case of Nassau County vs. Daniel Dubcek. Mr Dubcek was a forger and he pled guilty.<br />I think that people in the hobby have faith in our experience and knowledge, despite the fact that we have had no scientific training. Do people in the hobby have faith in a $93 Rube Waddell signature cut (not your authentication on this Waddell cut, came from the boys at STAT) or an $861 single signed Cap Anson baseball, when these items should sell for 100x that?<br />4 - I repeat a prior post, where are your exemplars of the really rare autographs that you wrote COA's for in Coaches Corner auctions?? Anson, Josh Gibson, Eddie Plank and JJ McGinnity and others. Any trained authenticator or document examiner has to work from exemplars. Let us see yours right now.<br /><br />--<br /><br />I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.<br />Unknown author <br />--<br />We made a promise. We swore we'd always remember.<br />No retreat baby, no surrender.<br />The Boss