Authentic or Not ?

[insidethewrapper]

Any opinions on these items that are going up for sale at a local auction ?

http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/228204.aspx

[travrosty]

they use 600% magnification to authenticate their autographs, so who can argue with that?

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

Any opinions on these items that are going up for sale at a local auction ?

http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/228204.aspx

There was recently another thread on Colossal Auctions. It would seem that the sheer number of extremely rare autographs should make you very cautious. Read the other thread for more details.....

[thecatspajamas]

Geez, you mean they have a LIVE auction where you can view the items in person and (presumably) come face-to-face with the CA personnel to ask questions? That's pretty ballsy given all the stuff dredged up in the other thread:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=142986

I thought they just hid behind their computers and lousy photos like Coach's Corner. Anyone local want to give a report from the auction?

[RichardSimon]

I await with interest the prices realized list.

[Runscott]

If I were an autograph forger, I would buy an old ball in barely beat-up shape, sign with a vintage pen that had less tendency to have the ink age (the old fountain pen signatures usually actually look old, so you can't use those), THEN I would finish aging the ball and the signatures - it would look like a kid played with it some, or let it get beat up a bit among his other things.

I guess what must have happened with these was that the balls were heavily game-used when they were submitted to the players for autographs, then the players signed their names very carefully, then the kid saved the balls from further abuse. I hate it when I go to get signatures and I plan on keeping them forever, perfectly protected, and all I have to get signed is beat-up dirty balls. At least the kid had a really nice pen with non-fading ink for them to sign with.

[sycks22]

It's cool how they have about 20 Ruth autos. It's also nice how Gehrig / Ruth's pen pressure is identical with the same pen.