[MEARSAUCTIONS]

For our August Auction, Jimmy Spence himself personally conducted the authentication in our offices. He flew in during July. We had approximately 200-250 lots from that session appear in our August auction, with some additional lots being placed in September. A very high percentage of the lots were of the Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn, Lou Burdette type of nature signatures. For those that are wondering, Jimmy personally inspects each and every signature, and uses his references library quite extensively.

We have staffers available to assist Jimmy with the processing of the items, which aids in the efficiency.

We were billed for a full day, and although he had a couple of soda's, I don't recall him taking a lunch break, but we did stop at McDonalds for breakfast after I picked him up from his hotel.

I can speak first hand to the challenges of getting an autograph authentication session correct. But, with a proper system in place, the job can be completed 100% accurately. For this auction, we did not follow our own protocol, and a mistake was made. I am thankful when issues are brought to light so that we can correct any mistakes. And, as always, if a mistake was made and found out to be our error, one week, one month, one year later, MEARS will always do the right thing and issue a full refund.

Regards,


Troy R. Kinunen/MEARS