Little test for the rest

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Originally Posted by Frozen in Time

As some on here know, i mostly collect vintage Mantle photos, so am often over on the memorabilia side of the forum. However, I sometimes come over to the autograph side, usually to try and educate myself with regard to authentic Mantle autos.

Over the last 2 years, i feel I've improved in that area, entirely because of the help and significant number of posts and PMs from all the experts here on net54.

So, I was wondering if it would make any sense, and perhaps also be a bit of fun (as well as educational), if one or more of the experts could post some autographed material to test some of us newbies, i.e., "students of autographs" on the forum.

If anyone agrees, I think to make it relatively easy for everyone, we should limit each post to 5 autographed items, all by the same player, and an authentic autograph does not have to be included - although from a didactic standpoint it would be useful.

To succeed, if would be ideal if as many members as possible gave their opinions on each of the 5 autographs for each post and then see how each of us did when the expert posts his opinion/verdict - say, after 1 week.

To start with, I would choose Mantle, Ruth and Gehrig.

Craig

Craig, with all due respect, IMHO, I think this is a bad idea. There are a handful of people on these boards that I would consider autograph experts, I am for sure not one of them. I tried once to give an opinion, i failed and would not do it again. I would hate to lose these members because everyone else who passed a Mantle autograph quiz suddenly feels they are a "deemed" expert, when some of the true experts on these boards have been doing it longer than I have been born. I know we lost one well respected member because of this, and I would hate to lose any more.

Again just my 2 cents.