Known autographed T206's and show and tell...

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Posted By: Bob

I'm more of an autograph guy, but I wonder about something...how baseball card collectors venture into the autograph realm.

Example. You buy a T206 card that is deemed VG+ and you send it in to get graded. That grade (by who knows who) tells you what the worth is basically.

You buy an autograph and you do not choose to have it authenticated.

Take for instance the collector above with the T206 signed cards or that Ruth book that keeps popping up.

In this age of investing/collecting autographs, isn't a piece of mind a good thing? If you were to sell them, nobody would touch them without certification of some sort. If they are authentic, those three could fetch...what?...$8,000. If not authentic, $30.

I think in the back of the mind, there is always that doubt that the authenticator is wrong (then you hate that authenticator for not telling you what you want to hear) or you simply don't want to be told the very bad news. With cards, there really isn't such dramatic news as to say that something is worthless and you have been duped of your monies.

I would love to see (and buy) some signed T205's. It's amazing how rare those are in signed form.

Regards,

Bob

2 cents about above. I think there is a fine line between what is fraud and what is simply a lack of an education. If the seller doesn't change his description, he is at fault here for stubbornly moving along without the proper information to the potential buyer.