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Originally Posted by prewarsports
Sal Bando must have been involved somehow!
Uniforms aside (and there were questions about most of those at the time which is why they went so cheap) I bet 99.9% of the rest of the items were all ok and I bet the overall amount of fraudulent items in the Halper estate were on par or maybe even better than what Major Auctions get now (before scrutiny and authentication), we just have the benefit of modern technology.
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I completely agree with this statement. The early Uniforms' credibility issues speak for themselves. But the vast majority of other items in this auction were unquestionably good (Trophies, Statues, Pennants, Broadsides, Posters, Photos, Gloves, Equipment, Jewelry, Fans, Scorers, Programs, Sheet Music, and on and on...)
I would believe that less than 1% of the total items sold were bad or misrepresented. Granted, there were some landmark pieces with some disturbing intent to deceive (which should not be forgiven).
But just because an item came from the Halper sale doesn't make it bad. To Rhys' point, the odds of an item being bad from the Halper sale are no different than any other auction (and probably preferential to ebay).
Also... the question came up about authentication. It may not be stated, but I had heard numerous times that Mike Gutierrez was the authenticator for most of the autographed items (fwiw).