the counterfeiter

[Shoeless Moe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib37AEq2c8I

[Leon]

That is a good video. Every collector should watch it.

[gregr2]

Good video, valuable information. Jut goes to show how hard it is to determine authenticity.

[yanksfan09]

Very good and interesting video. However, I find it pretty funny how he thinks he's the greatest forger in history! Quantity doesn't equate to quality!

So many of those items are such badly done obvious fakes! The McGwires and Sosas are so amateurish. He certainly was likely the most prolific in terms of numbers he sold and ripped off but needs to stop considering himself as some great artist, imo!

I don't think many of those sigs would get past many of the experts on this board!

If these clowns had been forging crap and getting passed by PSA or something it would have been more "impressive" as far as their skill. Thankfully that didn't happen. These knuckleheads had to set up their own fraud COA service to stamp all their garbage!

[irv]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib37AEq2c8I

Thanks for posting the vid.

I looked for it on American Greed and was going to post it in the T206 thread but I obviously was looking for it in the wrong place.

Definitely an eye opener but I wonder how many of still exists out there with collectors who are unaware of this story and think what they have is real?

[JLange]

Had not seen that before. Thanks for posting.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by yanksfan09

If these clowns had been forging crap and getting passed by PSA or something it would have been more "impressive" as far as their skill. Thankfully that didn't happen. These knuckleheads had to set up their own fraud COA service to stamp all their garbage!

As I’ve stated before, I have an extremely low opinion of the so-called “expert” third party authenticators that exist in the hobby....ESPECIALLY when it comes to autographs. I’ll bet a lot of those signatures would still be deemed as authentic by the “heavyweights” (you know who I mean) in the field. Conversely, those “experts” might tell you an autograph you got in person is no good. I just wish I’d thought of this cash cow.

Rob Greene