barry halper forgeries

[mr2686]

I think this is it:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/t...J2lj2tRkXhIfzH

[perezfan]

Thanks Mike

[stone193]

I read the article and want to believe that he obtained these items and thought they were genuine?

Perhaps I'm an eternal optimist.

However, the evidence is mounting and the Halper name may be getting as bad as some of the items he sold to ML BB and at auction in 1999.

[HRBAKER]

The question then becomes did he still think they were genuine when they were sold?

[packs]

Don't auction houses have a responsibility to authenticate their items before they are sold? How did Barry Halper become such an authority on memorabilia that because he said he bought something it was considered authentic?

[barrysloate]

Sotheby's hired independent experts to authenticate the uniforms and autographs for the sale.

[Hankphenom]

It would be interesting to know who did "authenticate" the proven bogus items sold or auctioned from the Halper collection, and if anything at all got bounced by the experts and consultants (wasn't Rob Lifson the main guy?) retained for the project? In other words, did any of the hobby heavyweights getting paid for their participation raise any red flags about the apparently vast number of questionable items they must have seen coming out of the collection?