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Posted By: <b>Chris Morales</b><p>Richard,<br /> <br />Your question pertaining to my exemplars files is just and a good question. I have spent many thousands of dollars and 100's of man hours between myself and other colleagues. I have more than the "required" number of 6 you mentioned. Because of my considerable costs in buildiing my files, I will not provide these to the public in open forum. I will direct you to the same locations I and other colleagues accessed, at consederable cost and time. You can do the work yourself. I will note a few of these to help you along:<br /> <br />Anson:<br />1. 11 examples from the Baseball Hall of Fame files (I encourage any autogaph collector to do the same but it does cost for the service. In the late 80's an early 90's, they allowed public access to their records, but now seem to have tightened up the access and require more credentialing).<br /> <br />2. Sothebys 4-9-94 letter lot 236<br />3. Anson calling card Halper collection<br />4. 1901 Anson presentation book page from Halper collection<br /><br /> <br />Josh Gibson<br />1. The Baseball Hall of Fame, many examples<br />2. Harison studios twice signed photo (recently discovered)<br />3. 4 winter league contracts <br />4. Josh Gibson and Paige signed baseball (Mastro auction last name only)<br /> <br /> <br />Eddie Plank:<br />1. The Baseball Hall of Fame many examples<br />2. Mastro auctions lot 2310 August 2006<br />3. Nov. 2000 lot 563 Mastro auctions<br />4. July 2000 Mastro auctions<br /> <br /> <br />I have complete copies of the George M Klepper collection of first day covers that surfaced in the early 1990's and was distributed through the hobby.<br /> <br />I have copies of most of the signatures from the Spalding archive housed in the New York Public Library (Again, I encourage any collector or dealer to access this. It is time consuming and you will have labor costs, but well worth the time.)<br /> <br />I have letters from Joe McGinnity, Rube Waddell and other dead ball era players. My exemplar base of dead ball players would be hard to beat. I stand confident, willing and able to present these in any court of law. I will not answer to a dozen different commands, threats or requirements from individuals who have already formed a negative opinion. <br /><br />I am preparing a response to many of the issues, including evidence from GWU that is being prepared. Sine GWU is closed on Monday, I expect to have all compiled by the middle of next week.<br />