February autograph pickups

[packs]

Don't know about that Brandon Phillips. Here's the one I got signed myself during spring training last year. Looks very different to me. Usually I use the rule of one bad apple, all bad apples:

[sbfinley]

Thanks for the replies guys. I knew bidding on them there was a chance they were junk and I'm only in them about $4 each.

[vintagehofrookies]

Joel,
Thats an awesome Aaron Ball! The second I saw it I was reminded of the Sandlot

[canjond]

Happy to pick this one up. Fitting personalization, too!

[Lordstan]

Nicely done Jon. Great pickups so far this month.

[gnaz01]

Jefferson Burdick signed letter about the financing of the ACC in 1960.

[Klrdds]

The Burdick letter is a great piece , an historical item as well. Nice going!

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by canjond

Happy to pick this one up. Fitting personalization, too!

Jon, very nice.

[dgo71]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

Thanks for the replies guys. I knew bidding on them there was a chance they were junk and I'm only in them about $4 each.

FWIW, I think they look like they were signed during those guys time in the minor leagues. I have several Phillips, Waino and McCann that look like these. Those guys were all in the minors around the same time frame (early 2000s) so if the rest of the lot fits, that's another good sign. That said, there's not much to those sigs and they likely wouldn't be too tough to forge, so without knowing who they came from or how they were obtained I wouldn't feel comfortable saying definitively either way, though I'd lean more towards good than bad. I think if someone were to go to the touble of forging someone like Phillips for example, on a recent, easy to find card, they'd at least use a blue sharpie.

[egri]

These are some great pickups everyone is posting!

My most recent is a 1953 Topps signed by Warren Spahn. I'd post a picture, but I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to post an image from a USB drive. I love getting those old Boston Braves cards signed.

Picked up a 1929 Cubs ball with Jimmie Burke, which clears a need on both my Cardinals (1905) and Browns (1918-20) managers.

[Runscott]

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[daves_resale_shop]

Added another Williams piece to the collection this month... Saw a cool piece on eBay, and got it at a pretty darned good price...the original display had the ap mounted to what I thought was a piece construction paper... There was an interesting note on the paper which I pretty much discounted until i disassembled it. It turns out that it was a very brittle scrapbook page. The reverse had 3 newspaper clips (one dated to 49). Pretty cool account of how a young fan, got ted to sign!

Display also included a snapshot of ted in his car (perhaps the same day?)

I gave my framer what was salvaged from the page, and he was able to craft this beauty.