Babe Ruth Relaxing At Home..Ebay Seller Ceasar404

[Runscott]

I think this auction was done as a joke, right?

It might be interesting to have a contest where each participant creates a Babe Ruth forgery where we do our best to accurately forge the signature, but the piece has something glaringly wrong with it (such as his signing a photograph of Dexter's father).

[Mr. Zipper]

Along those lines, we could perform the same type of test on "Rare & Signed."

If I submitted a "Babe Ruth" signed ham sandwich, would they cert it?

[jgmp123]

It has to be a joke or an ignorant attempt at fraud...If you look at the "Rare & Signed" COA, you will see it says the subject is a "Baseball". I would assume the photo was copied over the original ball photo....But hey, then again I could be wrong!! ....NEVERMIND. IT DOES SAY SIGNED PHOTO!!!! GEEZ...SOMEBODY NEEDS TO FIND SCOTLAND YARD'S ##

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I think this auction was done as a joke, right?

It might be interesting to have a contest where each participant creates a Babe Ruth forgery where we do our best to accurately forge the signature, but the piece has something glaringly wrong with it (such as his signing a photograph of Dexter's father).

It does not look like a joke to me. The signature is a decent forgery to the unknowing, done by a serious forger in my opinion. And getting a COA from the aforementioned company does not seem to be hard to do. After all, it does take a major effort to get on the banned list at ebay.
One thing I have learned about forgers, in all my years in this hobby, they might be skilled at what they do but the majority are a pretty dumb bunch.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

It does not look like a joke to me. The signature is a decent forgery to the unknowing, done by a serious forger in my opinion. And getting a COA from the aforementioned company does not seem to be hard to do. After all, it does take a major effort to get on the banned list at ebay.
One thing I have learned about forgers, in all my years in this hobby, they might be skilled at what they do but the majority are a pretty dumb bunch.

Yes, the signature looks like a legitimate forgery attempt, but let's face it - many of us could produce a similar result. The joke is that they put a 'decent' signature on a fat guy smoking a cigar, who looks nothing like Babe Ruth, and the photo is likely '50s or '60s, maybe even more recent.

It really has to be a joke.

[JimStinson]

Babe was quite a Chameleon...he looked completely different "relaxing at home" than he did in uniform swinging a bat. for comparison purposes have a look at the "relaxing at home Babe Ruth" photo and the "Babe Ruth having a night out on the town" image I've attached and you'll see it almost looks like two completely different people in addition to being such a great ball player he was a master of disguise !!!!!
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[Leon]

Originally Posted by JimStinson

Babe was quite a Chameleon...he looked completely different "relaxing at home" than he did in uniform swinging a bat. for comparison purposes have a look at the "relaxing at home Babe Ruth" photo and the "Babe Ruth having a night out on the town" image I've attached and you'll see it almost looks like two completely different people in addition to being such a great ball player he was a master of disguise !!!!!
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obviously that is Babe's bro. I think his name was Hakeemjudar....